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Syria’s Maleh to form a ‘government in exile’, update

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Syrian opposition figure Haytham al-Maleh told reporters on Tuesday that he has been tasked with forming a government in exile based in Cairo.

“I have been tasked with leading a transitional government,” Maleh said, adding that he will begin consultations “with the opposition inside and outside” the country.

Born in 1931, Maleh is a Syrian democracy activist and former judge. He is a critic of the current Syrian regime under Bashar al-Assad and has been imprisoned by the Syrian government as a political prisoner on several occasions since the 1960s. Maleh was a key member of the Syrian National Council opposition.

France 24

Update:

Divisions among opposition groups

According to New York Times newspaper , divisions among opposition groups appeared to deepen after The Council of Syrian Revolutionary Trustees, which is an offshoot of the Syrian National Council, the main opposition group in exile, nominated Maleh, one of its own leaders to form a transitional government.

Maleh is arguing that a new government must be formed immediately to avoid a “political or administrative void” once Assad’s government was toppled.

Maleh said his group would move to Aleppo after what he called its liberation from Assad government control.

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14 responses to “Syria’s Maleh to form a ‘government in exile’, update”

  1. breakthemould Avatar
    breakthemould

    Will he have young ideas?

  2. breakthemould Avatar
    breakthemould

    Will he have young ideas?

  3. breakthemould Avatar
    breakthemould

    Will he have young ideas?

  4. breakthemould Avatar
    breakthemould

    Any new man must work hard to wipe the word “revenge” from the Syrian vocabulary.  A Nelson Mandela.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Yes, getting revenge out of the thinking will be an almost impossible task – especially when that revenge-thought is backed up by religions.
      He may not be young enough to lead into a future, but certainly has the experience of the past and probably the right ideas on a concept of unity of citizens which would go a long way to the formation of a democracy and a code written with peace/equality goals in mind.
      Besides, what the hell, somebody has to try. Otherwise, nothing will change.

      1. breakthemould Avatar
        breakthemould

        Let see. Let us have a debate about the ideal person even if we do not have one. What do you think the right qualification for the right person?
        I don’t think having been to prison several times is enough qualification. Even being an intellectual is enough either Vaclav Havel? or Lech Walesa types. The job needs something else, don’t you think?

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          breakthemould

           Hypothetical of course. But it is worth exercising our brains, isn’t it?

  5. breakthemould Avatar
    breakthemould

    Any new man must work hard to wipe the word “revenge” from the Syrian vocabulary.  A Nelson Mandela.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Yes, getting revenge out of the thinking will be an almost impossible task – especially when that revenge-thought is backed up by religions.
      He may not be young enough to lead into a future, but certainly has the experience of the past and probably the right ideas on a concept of unity of citizens which would go a long way to the formation of a democracy and a code written with peace/equality goals in mind.
      Besides, what the hell, somebody has to try. Otherwise, nothing will change.

      1. breakthemould Avatar
        breakthemould

        Let see. Let us have a debate about the ideal person even if we do not have one. What do you think the right qualification for the right person?
        I don’t think having been to prison several times is enough qualification. Even being an intellectual is enough either Vaclav Havel? or Lech Walesa types. The job needs something else, don’t you think?

  6. breakthemould Avatar
    breakthemould

    Any new man must work hard to wipe the word “revenge” from the Syrian vocabulary.  A Nelson Mandela.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Yes, getting revenge out of the thinking will be an almost impossible task – especially when that revenge-thought is backed up by religions.
      He may not be young enough to lead into a future, but certainly has the experience of the past and probably the right ideas on a concept of unity of citizens which would go a long way to the formation of a democracy and a code written with peace/equality goals in mind.
      Besides, what the hell, somebody has to try. Otherwise, nothing will change.

      1. breakthemould Avatar
        breakthemould

         Let see. Let us have a debate about the ideal person even if we do not have one. What do you think the right qualification for the right person?

        1. breakthemould Avatar
          breakthemould

           Hypothetical of course. But it is worth exercising our brains, isn’t it?

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