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President al-Assad discusses with Committee for the Supervision of al-Baath Party’s Election the methodology of the electoral process


Damascus, President Bashar al-Assad, the Secretary General of al-Baath Arab Socialist Party , listened to a briefing of the tours and meetings conducted by the Higher Committee for Supervising Party Elections in the Branches and Governorates during the past days, in addition to the procedural inquiry points that the dialogues brought up, which the Committee clarified at the time, and others require auditing and organizational review, with the aim of ensuring the greatest level of integrity, electoral justice and representation in nomination, voting and results.

During the meeting with the Supreme Committee for Supervising Party Elections,,President Al-Assad noted the level of responsibility shown by the Supervisory Committee, and its management of a transparent and rich dialogue process with comrades in the branches.

President al-Assad stressed that the success of the election supervision experience will be built upon in the upcoming elections at various party levels that will follow an expanded conference,
therefore the experience today can be part of a democratic track whose transparency and success must be met.

President al-Assad pointed out that the necessity to evaluate this experience in a scientific and a precise manner, in a way we correct any gaps that may be revealed in the application of the regulatory regulations.

President al-Assad discussed with the Committee, the methodology for proceeding with the electoral entitlement, the basic new points that resulted from the rounds of all branches, as well as the peculiarities that may distinguish one party branch from another, and the repercussions of that on some organizational aspects.

The Committee raised the issue of undocumented partisans in a number of branches in the governorates that have a special status , and the issue of the right of the winning candidate at the People’s level to withdraw at the branch level, the committee will decide directly on these two issues, and then it will announce the start date for the party elections, which will beg
in in the coming days.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency