The insurgent coalition that seized management of Syria final month appointed its chief, Ahmed al-Shara, as president of the nation to preside over a transitional interval, Syrian state media reported on Wednesday.
A spokesman for the coalition, Col. Hassan Abdel Ghani, additionally declared that the Structure had been nullified and the legislature and armed forces shaped underneath the nation’s deposed dictator, Bashar al-Assad, have been dissolved, in accordance with Syria’s state information company, SANA.
The declarations amounted to the nation’s first official steps towards establishing a brand new authorities after the insurgent coalition, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, swept into the capital, Damascus, final month in a lightning offensive that toppled Mr. al-Assad. Mr. al-Shara, who led that coalition, has since been serving because the nation’s de facto chief.
Because the president of the transitional authorities, Mr. al-Shara shall be on the helm of a once unimaginable period of transition in Syria, which had been dominated by the iron fist of the Assad household for greater than 50 years.
