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| Key Syria Dissidents Leave Coalition Grouping |
| 2013-03-21 |
| [An Nahar] At least 12 key members of Syria's National Coalition said Wednesday they had suspended their membership in the main opposition body amid a row over the deeply divisive election of the first rebel prime minister. The group of 12 included the Coalition's deputy Soheir Atassi and spokesman Walid al-Bunni. Their decision came amid bitter disagreement over the election of Ghassan al-Hitto as the first opposition premier. Other members who said they had "frozen" their membership in the Coalition included Kamal Labwani, Marwan Hajj Rifai, Yehia al-Kurdi and Ahmad al-Assi Jarba, with sources saying more such announcements were expected. Though the dissenting members said they had different reasons for their decisions, some expressed their opposition to Hitto's election, and the process by which he was chosen. "The Coalition is a non-elected body, and as such it does not have a right to choose a prime minister on a majority vote. There should have been consensus," Labwani told Agence France Presse. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Not long in coming, division among the dividers. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-03-21 07:30 |