Syria’s new authorities have announced that Ahmed al-Sharaa, who took over after Bashar al-Assad’s fall last month, has been designated interim president and is in charge of drafting a transitional assembly, according to state media.
A rebel alliance led by Sharaa’s Islamist organisation Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) removed Assad on December 8 following a lightning offensive, ending five decades of his family’s iron-fisted control, with a transitional administration already in place to manage the country until March 1st.
Sharaa was appointed “as the country’s president in the transitional phase”, state news agency SANA reported, adding that he would also represent the country “in international forums”.
Sharaa was tasked with forming “a temporary legislative council… until a permanent constitution for the country is decided”, SANA said, adding that the Assad-era parliament had been dissolved and the 2012 constitution suspended.
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