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Syria Lawmaker Becomes First Presidential Challenger
[An Nahar] A communist MP has registered as the first challenger for the Syrian presidency in a June election expected to return incumbent Bashir al-Assad to power, the parliament speaker said Wednesday."We have received information from the higher constitutional court that member of parliament Maher Abdel Hafiz Hajjar has filed his candidacy for the post of president of the Syrian Arab Republic," Mohammad Lahham said, quoted on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? News of Hajjar's candidacy came two days after Lahham announced that Syria would hold a presidential election on June 3. It also comes after the U.N., the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , the Syrian opposition and the United States slammed the election announcement as a "farce", a "parody of democracy" and an obstacle to a grinding of the peace processor dubbed Geneva II aimed at ending Syria's three-year war. A foreign ministry official on Monday lashed out at the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... and its peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi for "obstructing" the Geneva II peace talks. Posted by: Fred 2014-04-24 |
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