Syrian’s Ahmed al-Shara said that it would take four to five years to hold the presidential election on Monday, for the first time he has prepared a time for votes as he was nominated for the transitional president last week.
Shaar, who was leading the Islamist rebel group, led an electric topping to Autocratic President Bashar al-Assad in early December, was declared a transitional president on 30 January.
“I think this period will be between four to five years till elections because a huge infrastructure is required, and this infrastructure needs to be re -established and established,” Sharia has an interview to Syria TV Disseminated in monday.
He said that Syrian officials would need to strengthen data on the country’s population to update their electoral data, saying: “Without this case, any election will be doubted.”
Shara said that Syria would implement international norms on transitional periods, in which they apply for the President during that time. Based on those criteria, he said, Syria “will eventually go to an elected presidential post and an elected authority.”
He did not specify which international criteria he reviewed, which he had determined the schedules set.
When Shara was declared a transitional president, he was also empowered to form a temporary legislative council for a transitional period and was suspended to the Syrian Constitution.
He has promised to start a political transition, including a national conference to produce an inclusive government.
Shara said that an initial committee would be formed to conduct consultation in Syria.
“Then, it will invite those who usually represent the Syrians,” he said.
The conference will discuss “all important problems in Syria” and produce a final statement that will form the basis of “constitutional announcement”, he said.
Shara said in December that it may take three years to draft a new constitution.
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