The General Command in Syria announced the appointment of Ahmed al-Sharaa as President of Syria for a transitional phase, dissolving the People’s Assembly, the army, and revolutionary factions, and suspending the Constitution.
The spokesperson for the Military Operations Administration, Hassan Abdul Ghani, announced several decisions during the “Victory Conference” held in Damascus today, Wednesday, January 29, the most significant of which are:
- The new head of the Syrian administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa, will assume the presidency of Syria for the transitional phase and represent the Syrian Arab Republic in international forums.
- Al-Sharaa is authorized to form a temporary legislative council for the transitional period, which will perform its duties until a permanent constitution is ratified and comes into effect.
- The ruling Baath Party in Syria during the previous regime, along with the parties of the National Progressive Front and any affiliated organizations, institutions, and committees, is dissolved, and re-establishing them under any other name is prohibited, with all their assets returned to the Syrian state.
- All security agencies belonging to the previous regime will be dissolved, along with their branches and designations, as well as all the militias it created, and a new security institution will be formed.
- The previous regime’s army will be dissolved, and the Syrian army will be rebuilt “on national grounds.”
- The People’s Assembly and the committees derived from it will be dissolved.
- The 2012 Constitution will be abolished, and all emergency laws will be suspended.
- All military factions, and revolutionary and civil bodies will be dissolved and integrated into state institutions.
- December 8 of each year (the date of the regime’s fall) will be announced as a national holiday.
Opposition factions entered Damascus on December 8, 2024, to declare the end of the Assad family’s rule in Syria, which lasted nearly 54 years.
This came following 11 days of continuous battles after announcing the launch of the “Deterrence of Aggression” operation on November 27, 2024, initiated by the Military Operations Administration, which gathered the revolutionary factions participating in the battle.
Fighting began from the western Aleppo countryside, taking control of areas previously held by Bashar al-Assad, starting with Aleppo and passing through Hama and Homs, reaching Damascus.
Today, activities of the “Victory Conference” were launched in Damascus with the presence of al-Sharaa and leaders of most Syrian factions that participated in military operations against the previous regime.
Al-Sharaa delivered a speech before the military leaders, which was not broadcast live, while the official Syrian news agency (SANA) broadcast excerpts from the speech.
Al-Sharaa stated that “what Syria needs today more than ever, just as we previously resolved to liberate it, is now the commitment to build and develop it.”
He set Syria’s priorities today as filling the power vacuum, preserving civil peace, building state institutions, working on a developmental economic structure, and restoring Syria’s international and regional standing, according to al-Sharaa.
The Syrian Foreign Minister, Asaad al-Shibani, also delivered a speech, in addition to several military faction leaders.