ALBAWABA - Jamal Suleiman has announced his intention to run for Syria's presidency, aiming to break away from Assad's regime.
With the fall of the Syrian regime and the end of the Assad family's dominance over Syria, Jamal Suleiman made public his intention to run for the presidency of the Syrian Republic. Two days after the regime's overthrow, Jamal Suleiman made this announcement.
Jamal revealed the following in an interview with Al Arabiya: "I told the story to Al Arabiya many years ago, and people saw it. When they asked if I had the ambition to run for the presidency of the republic in Syria, I said, Yes, I have this desire."
He continued, "This is not a certainty, nor is it a condition." I said that if I do not find someone who is most suitable for me for this position, whether a man or a woman, I will be a candidate if the Syrians want me."
When asked about the motivation behind his decision, Suleiman responded, "I wanted to break this taboo, the regime planted in us that it is forbidden to say that I want to become a minister or I want to become a prime minister or I want to become a president; you will become if we indicate that you will become; no, this is enough for all of us Syrians."
"I wanted to express the widely held belief that an exclusive terrorist jihadist group would emerge as an alternative if this regime or president were to fall," he continued. "I was giving the impression that this is not necessarily the case." A moderate, non-sectarian person who believes in democracy and has good relations with all Syrians, regardless of intellectual and sectarian affiliations, could be the alternative. This individual would have spent his entire life working in academic, artistic, and cultural fields.
