Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The Syrian government resigns

Damascus .- The Syrian government headed by Mohammed Naji Otri today announced his resignation amid a political furor erupted last 18 and have caused dozens of deaths. Otri will remain prime minister until the formation of a new cabinet, according to official news agency Sana, announcing the resignation of the prime minister had been accepted by the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The outgoing head of government he formed his cabinet, with a profile technocrat, 18 September 2003, when he was appointed to replace Prime Minister Mohamed Mustafa Miro. The latest cabinet reshuffle Otri was completed in April 2009. Officials consulted by Efe said that in the coming days, possibly tomorrow, the announcement of the new head of government.

The resignation of the Government are met while waiting for President Assad to rule in a few hours before parliament "an important message to all Syrians, officials said. The sources said the message of Al Asad, the first since the outbreak of protests from the opposition, may be tonight or tomorrow, Wednesday.

The government crisis came after several days of protests across the country in which some 130 people have died, according to estimates by opposition activists, though, according to the Government, the fatalities are thirty. Opposition groups accuse security forces of being responsible for this repression, but the government argues that the riots were caused by armed gangs and Islamic radicals.

Al Asad is in power since 17 July 2000, a week after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad. Today, hundreds of thousands of people took part in massive demonstrations in major cities in support of the Syrian president, in a regime's attempt to win popular support before the wave of opposition protests.

According to state television images, the participants in those samples supporting the regime carried signs like "Urgent: the conspiracy has failed" or "We have dropped the conspiracy and sectarian divisions." Concentrations of today a large number of demonstrators carried Syrian flags and portraits of Bashar al-Assad, shouting slogans in favor of the president.

Since the outbreak of protests by the opposition, the Damascus government has shifted responsibility to unidentified foreign players in his opinion, want to extend to Syria the riots had erupted in several countries in the region. The scheme ensures that a target of a plot inspired from abroad to punish Syria for its support of groups opposed to U.S..

UU., A clear reference to the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, Palestinian Hamas and good relations with Iran. Concentrations of today in support of the regime were held in the capital, Damascus, and in other cities such as Aleppo, Hama and Hasake. The opposition demonstrations, however, have been developed in Damascus, in the port city of Latakia and the southern town of Dera, near the Jordanian border in Syria during the protests, which began tentatively in February and intensified From March 18, opposition groups calling for democratic reforms and the repeal of emergency law in force since the Baath Party came to power in 1963.

The Damascus government has pledged to repeal the emergency law, but has not given a date for it. Syria had kept far apart from the wave of unrest in the region, among other reasons because there are as many social inequalities that exist in countries such as Tunisia and Egypt. Along with that, the great Syrian police apparatus in recent years has silenced any protest and also al-Assad is seen as an element of social cohesion against sectarian risks in the country, analysts said.

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