The new Syrian legislation will be based on the Islamic jurisprudence. This is stated by the text of the new Syrian constitutional declarationapproved and signed this Thursday by the interim president Syrian, Ahmed Al Sharaawho led, in December last year the rebel offensive that ended the civil war in the Arab country and with five decades of ASAD regime.
During the last three months, Sharaa and his allies said, by active and passive, that his government would not establish the ‘Sharía’the Islamic lawin Syriaas they have been doing in the Idleb region, controlled by Al Sharaa and his group, Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (hts)since 2017.
The constitutional declaration published on Thursday – which will be in force for a period of five -year political transition– does not declare the ‘Sharía’, but gives great powers to the figure of the presidency of the country, whose decisions and guidelines “will be above the Legislative Assembly [que será formada en los próximos días y semanas]”.
“The previous constitutions served the dictator. But the text approved this Thursday ensures that all authority will be controlled by the people. This constitutional declaration establishes the guarantee that individual freedoms of all the components and cultures of Syrian society will be respected, ”he said Abdul Hamid Al Youone of the members of the Constitutional Committeeat a press conference this Thursday. “We have chosen a complete political system separation of powers. And the system proposed in the statement will serve to direct this transition period, ”Awak continued.
A new executive
In the next few days it is expected that Sharaa announce the New Transition Government Syrian, who will keep him as an interim president but will incorporate, according to Syrian political sources, other formations and opposition matches Syrians who were in exile – especially in Türkiye y Jordan– During the years of the Civil War in the Arab country, started just 14 years ago.
This new Syrian transition government had, in fact, to be announced at the beginning of March, but the statement of the new Executive was postponed after the large -scale offensive of Militiamen loyal to Asad in the Mediterranean coast of the country. That offensive unleashed a wave of sectarian violence against the Alauí minority of the region, to which many militia – now soldiers – of the new Army Syrian blame the crimes committed by ASAD and his regime during the last decades.
The Syrian Constitutional Declaration approved this Thursday, in addition, safeguard “the women’s rights to work and higher education ”and marks the commitment of the Syrian State to“ maintain the Unit of the territory respecting the cultural specificities and differences of Syrian society. ”
