Seven Candidates Registered for Syria’s Presidential Elections

April 28th, 2014

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nsnbc : Seven candidates have registered their candidacy for the upcoming presidential elections in Syria to the country’s Supreme Court. President Bashar al-Assad is running for reelection to the office. The other candidates are Hassan al-Nouri, Mohammad Firas Yassin Rajjouh, Abdul-Salam Youssef Salameh, Sawsan Omar al-Haddad, and Sameer Ahmad Mo’alla.

Putting speculations whether he would run for another term to rest, President Bashar al-Assad was the last of the seven candidates who registered their candidacy for the the country’s highest office at the Supreme Court. Al-Assad submitted his candidacy application on Monday, only two days before the deadline, which already prompted some foreign observers to speculate whether he would run at all.

Assad underlined the importance of the elections, saying “we are living in an election atmosphere, for the first time in Syria’s modern history”. He stressed that violence and national interests are irreconcilable, encouraged all citizens to show their affinity at the ballot box, and asked people not to use celebratory gunfire to show their happiness. Given the tense situation in the country it could easily lead to misunderstandings and tragic events.

Bashar al-Assad was born in the Syrian capital Damascus on September 11, 1965. He was born as the son to President Hafez al-Assad but had initially no presidential ambitions, although he joined the Baath Arab Socialist Party in 1979. He graduated from High School in 1982.

Bashar studied Medicine at Damascus University and graduated in 1988. He specialized in Ophthalmology and trained at Tishren Military Hospital before he pursued further studies at the Eye Hospital at the Imperial College in London, between 1992 and 1994.

Bashar returned to Damascus when his brother, Bassel, died in a car accident. It was from here on, that Bashar prepared himself for a political leadership role. His father, President Hafez al-Assad died in 1996, after which Bashar was elected for the presidency for the first time. He enlisted in the army during his third year at university. After his return from London he rose through the military ranks as he pursued additional military courses.

Between 1996 and 2000 Bashar also headed the Syrian Computer Society that launched the National Informatics Program that helped make internet services available to all citizens and which helped spreading a culture of information technology. Bashar was reelected in May 2007.

Maher Abdul-Hafiz Hajjar was born in the city of Aleppo in 1968 and comes from a well known family with a strong religious background. He graduated from Aleppo University with a degree in Philology before he joined the Syrian Communist Party in 1994. In 2000 he left the party and formed a temporary union of communists in Aleppo.

In 2003, Maher united with other communist leaders to form the National Committee for the Unity of Syrian Communists which then was rebranded as Popular Will Party. He became the Secretary of the Council of the Popular Will Party. In 2007 he failed in a bet to be elected as MP to the People’s Assembly and he contested the election results after the failed attempt. He also ran for office during the 2012 parliamentary elections within the list of the Popular Front for Change and Liberation and won with the second largest number of votes for any independent candidate.

Hassan al-Nouri was born in the capital Damascus 0n February 9, 1960. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Economy and Trade (Business Administration) from the University of Damascus in 1982.

He obtained a PhD in General Management – Human Resources Development – from the John F. Kennedy University in 1989.

He has been working as Secretary of the Damascus Chamber of Commerce and Industry between 1997-2000. He was an MP from 1998-2003 and Minister of State for Administrative Development Affairs from 2000-2002.

Nouri is the head of the National Initiative for Adminstration and Change in Syria.

The other registered candidates are Mohammad Firas Yassin Rajjouh, Abdul-Salam Youssef Salameh, Sawsan Omar al-Haddad, and Sameer Ahmad Mo’alla. We will be publishing more information about all of the candidates as we receive updates.

Dr. Ali Haidar

The head of the Syrian National Social Party, Ali Haidar, said that his party has not yet registered a presidential candidate and that it is not sure whether they will.

The deadline for registering candidacies is May1. Haydar stressed, however, that presidential elections are a national and constitutional right and an example of Syrian sovereignty.

Speaking on Syrian television, Haydar stressed that elections should be approached politically and that the party will carry out its duties in this process in accordance with laws and regulations. Haydar stressed that the SNDP never has boycotted any elections and that it participated in forming the new constitution, the current government, and in the elections to the People’s Assembly.

Haydar said that even though the party has not yet adopted a candidate for the presidency it will participate in the elections. If the party does not pose its own candidate, we will be voting for other candidates, he said.

Ch/L – nsnbc 28.04.2014

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