The present constitution dates again to 2012 and would not specify Islam because the speak religion
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12 December, 2024, 09:55 pm
Closing modified: 12 December, 2024, 10:10 pm
Syria’s recent authorities spokesman told AFP on Thursday the nation’s constitution and parliament would be suspended for the length of the three-month transition duration following president Bashar al-Assad’s ouster.
“A judicial and human rights committee will be established to agree with the constitution after which introduce amendments,” Obaida Arnaout told AFP.
The present constitution dates again to 2012 and would not specify Islam because the speak religion.
Rebels led by the Islamist militant neighborhood Hayat Tahrir al-Sham seized the capital Damascus on Sunday, sending Assad fleeing into exile.
On Tuesday, they named Mohammed al-Bashir, who headed the rebels’ self-proclaimed “Salvation Authorities” of their northwestern bastion of Idlib, because the nation’s transitional prime minister till March 1.
Arnaout talked a pair of gathering would be held on Tuesday “between Salvation Authorities ministers and the worn ministers” of Assad’s administration to arrangement the switch of power.
“This transitional duration will last three months,” he added in an interview with AFP. “Our priority is to glean and give protection to establishments.”
Speaking at the speak television headquarters, now seized by the recent stand up authorities, Arnaout pledged that they would institute “the rule of law”.
“All contributors who dedicated crimes in opposition to the Syrian contributors will be judged in step with the law,” he added.
Requested about religious and private freedoms, he talked about “we respect religious and cultural vary in Syria”, in conjunction with that they would live unchanged.
The Sunni majority nation modified into once dominated with an iron fist by Assad, a follower of the Alawite offshoot of Shiite Islam who sought to mission himself as a protector of minority communities.
