Written by Nasser Kandil,

The scene of the popular flood in the Syrian presidential elections two year ago has presented what is enough for the world to confess that the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad does not face a dilemma in his popular legitimacy that calls for the resorting to early presidential elections, if the presence of the majority that elects him in the areas under the dominance of the Syrian country and its institutions was a matter of questioning through the conditions of its occurrence and the degree of the available conditions of freedom and fairness, then the Syrians who have marched to the Syrian Embassy in Hazmieh in the east of Beirut  to give him their ten thousands votes were as the reports of the UN organizations and the Lebanese associations which take care of them say, they are assumed that those who left their country either out of inability to survive in the areas which are under the control of the institutions of the country in order not to be prosecuted for their opposed positions , or they were residents of areas that were out of the control of the country and its army, so they were exposed to the threats of war which the army wages to recapture them. Therefore according to the agreed description they are disgruntled crowd against the country which the President Al-Assad constitutes its symbol, in addition to the elections in Lebanon where the active media is generally hostile to the Syrian country and a cynical of what it called the farce of elections, including some of the media institutions which are friend of the resistance, and in Lebanon the govern is under the leadership of the forces of the Fourteenth of Mach which waged fiercely the battle of overthrowing the state in Syria, and called for absorbing what it called them the surplus of the revolution' victims in Syria, furthermore, in the worst analyses the Lebanese balance constitutes between the advocates and the opponents of the President Al-Assad a typical environment for the freedom on the Syrian refugees to practice their electoral choices.

The skeptics of the honest speech of the popularity of the Syrian president and his legitimacy are those who are supposed to make the challenge themselves with the President under the slogan of asking him to accept holding early presidential elections that resolve the debate about who the Syrians want, and end the blood which is supposed or as many claimed that it is between the Syrian country and its opponents, moreover they prevent the exploitation of terrorist organizations according to the description  of the Former US Secretary of State and the current Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in her interpretation of the flow of the fighters of Al Qaeda organization to Syria by saying that the origin was the oppression of the state services against its people and what it led to multiform anger that is accompanied with a reverse extremism that it is just an understood  reaction that will disappear by the end of its reasons, so as long as the opponents of country and its president from Washington to Hassan Abdul Azim describe what Syria is witnessing for five years that it is a crisis that is summarized by the Syrian presidency, while they see the other things are subsidiary  marginal repercussions from the presence of terrorism and its branches to the foreign interventions which make Syria an arena for the regional and international conflicts and have complicated its crisis more and more. But why did not we hear any one of them talking about the solution which is the resorting to early presidential elections in conditions, terms, and guarantees that allow the arrival of whom the Syrians want, thus the guarantees, conditions, and terms will be the subject of negotiation, this is from the initial point of view while from the interest point of view, the question is for the opponents who are supposed that they are keen on their people and want to stop the destruction and save the sacrifices, they complain of the imbalance of the abilities between them and the country which toward its President  they provoke the hostility  in the military field, while they are confident of a reverse malfunction in the popular field. Furthermore, as long as they are confident that  an overwhelming majority of the Syrian people will stand with them as soon as they have the opportunity, so why did not they call for early presidential elections and make the center of the political process since the Kofi Anan's mission in 2011 in how to provide this opportunity for the Syrians?

Those who might ask why did not the president present this proposal before, are those who accepted to describe the crisis as a war between the advocates and the opposition, knowing that the answer is easy and simple, but those who said from the first day that it is a global regional war in order to change the site of Syria in the political geography of the region, and that in the field it is a war which the terrorism waged by proxy of the international and regional decision makers on one hand, till it becomes well rooted to wage it by itself to snatch Syria to the third bank of the political geography of the region, that bank is not the base for the resistance choice and it is not the bank which the decision-makers of the war want, thus it becomes a base for terrorism toward Europe in the West,  Russia in the North, and China in the East, the cure according to those who describe the crisis like this is not early presidential elections but fierce war that proves the position of Syria in the political geography as a resisting citadel, and protects it from the threat of terrorism to present it an example that protects the world from the terrorism’s  impending dangers, and when this is achieved, and when it gets the desperation from the bet on its overthrowing by the decision-makers of the war, a sense of partnership  of the danger of the terrorism, a desire of cooperation to fight it, and a confident of its ability to lead this war, then Syria and its President will be involved in facilitating the engagement with it against the opponents of yesterday and the partners of tomorrow by presenting a recipe that comforts them from the burdens and the restrictions of slogans that they raised and have become restrictions and shackles between them and their coming normal position. Therefore the call is not mere a coincidence of timing after the resounding success and the dazzling example which the battle of Palmyra has carried with all its meanings, dimensions, answers, an example, and a roadmap.

The willingness of the President Bashar Al-Assad for early presidential elections is half of the victory which has been achieved in Palmyra.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,

2016-04-03 | عدد القراءات 1726