Ahmad Jarba won the presidency of the
National Coalition election by 55 votes, and Badr Jamous won the post of
Secretary-General of the National Coalition after by 54 votes.
Suhair Atassi,
Farouk Tayfour and Salem al-Muslet were selected as deputies.
The election was
divided between Ahmad Jarba, a tribal figure linked with Saudi Arabia, and
Mustafa al-Sabbagh, a businessman who is Qatar's point man, did not gain more
than half of the votes in the 115 member SNC in an early morning ballot in
Istanbul.
The coalition, which
can be split to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Sabbagh faction and a Saudi-backed
bloc that includes Jarba, held the vote after failing to agree on a compromise
candidate.
Jarba who represents
the faction of veteran secular dissident Michel Kilo, obtained 55 votes in the
deeply divided Syrian National Coalition.
National Coalition
couldn't name new president until today after four Marthonic days when the
candidates fail to obtain the minimum for the success of 57 votes out of 113.
Early today, Zaman
Alwasl source said that Suheir Atassi the only member only who won 76 votes and kept her previous position as Coalition vice
president while the candidate Mohamed Farouk Tayfour for the second deputy
president had won only 50 votes.
In
relevant development, National Coalition member, Haitham al-Maleh, told Zaman
Alwasl that Ghassan Hito, the current Opposition government will be replaced by
another well-known figure of the opposition as well as we have thousands of
diplomats and political dissidents who are very qualified and got the
expertise. ''Hito is unknown personality for the most of Syrians,'' al-Maleh
Added.
Today, the
discussions regarding the new prime minister will take place. al-Maleh
concluded.
In relevant context,
Deputy General Observer of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria told Zaman Alwasl
that no discussions had taken place in the ongoing Istanbul meeting about
attending Geneva 2.
Mohamed Tayfour, the
prominent opposition figure, said we hope to find consensus president better
that going to the elections.
Tayfur admitted to
Zaman Alwasl that the atmosphere of the closed meetings of the coalition,
marred by tension according to the large number of cases to be discussed.
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