Syrian National Council: Presidential Elections are a Fatal Blow to a Political Solution

The Syrian National Council said that the presidential elections that will be held on June 3rd will deal a fatal blow to a political solution. It also lampoons holding this parody of democracy while blood and destruction are covering all of Syria. “These elections will eliminate all chances of reaching a political solution, particularly the deadlocked Geneva conference. This step is also an expression of absolute contempt for all moral and human values ​​and for all the aspirations of the Syrian people. However, the Assad regime’s intention to hold presidential elections did not surprise us, as we know very well the meaning of the presidential elections when they will be manipulated by the Assad regime. It is just a festival of hypocrisy and falsification of the will of the people, and is designed to prove the people’s loyalty to the tyrant.” Furthermore, the Syrian National Council said that “the Syrians are fully aware that the Assad regime did not come to power through democratic means, and it will never allow holding free and fair elections because. But when the world will realize this fact? And when will the United Nations give up expressing condemnation and deep concern, and begin to exercise their role in rescuing the Syrian people from Assad’s killing machine? Few hours before the announcement of the presidential elections, regime forces used chemical weapons against women and children, as if the Assad regime is making it clear that his election campaign includes murder only using all tools and methods with the aim of bringing the Syrian people to their kneels.” The Syrian National Council concluded by stressing that “in Syria today there are no more festivals for pledging allegiance to Hafez or Bashar Assad, and the Syrian people will show this wretched tyrant that the time of oppression and tyranny is gone and will never return.” (Source: Syrian Coalition)