DAMASCUS:
Syrian chief Ahmed al-Sharaa on Thursday hailed the beginning of a “new historical past” for his nation, signing into power a constitutional declaration regulating its five-year transitional interval and laying out rights for ladies and freedom of expression.
The declaration comes three months after Islamist-led rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad’s repressive authorities, resulting in calls each inside and out of doors the nation for an inclusive new Syria that respects rights.
The brand new authorities repealed the Assad-era structure and dissolved parliament.
Interim President Sharaa on Thursday stated he hoped the constitutional declaration would mark the start of “a brand new historical past for Syria, the place we exchange oppression with justice… and struggling with mercy”, as he signed the doc on the presidential palace.
The declaration units out a transitional interval of 5 years, throughout which a “transitional justice fee” can be shaped to “decide the means for accountability, set up the info, and supply justice to victims and survivors” of the previous authorities’s misdeeds.
The declaration enshrines “girls’s proper to take part in work and training, and have all their social, political and financial rights assured”, stated Abdul Hamid al-Awak, a member of the committee that drafted the declaration.
It maintains the requirement that the president of the republic have to be a Muslim, with Islamic jurisprudence set out as “the principle supply” of laws.
It additionally stipulates the “absolute separation of powers”, Awak stated, pointing to toppled president Assad’s “encroachment” on different branches of presidency.
It offers the president a sole distinctive energy: declaring a state of emergency.
Awak added that the individuals’s meeting, a 3rd of which shall be appointed by the president, can be tasked with drafting all laws.
A supreme electoral committee can be shaped to supervise the election of members of the legislature.
Below the declaration, the legislature can not impeach the president, nor can the president dismiss any lawmakers.
Government energy would even be restricted to the president within the transitional interval, Awak stated, pointing to the necessity for “speedy motion to confront any difficulties”.
He added that the declaration additionally ensures the “freedom of opinion, expression and the press”.
The declaration affirms the independence of the judiciary and prohibits “the institution of extraordinary courts”, underneath which many Syrians suffered for many years, Awak stated.