National Coalition to name Ahmed Jarba as new-elected president

 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.