Presidential elections also to take place in PYD regions
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:36 am
Al-Qamishli: Presidential elections also to take place in PYD-controlled regions
KURDWATCH, June 2, 2014—In an interview with the Syrian TV-station Sama, Akram Hiso, chairman of the executive council of the transitional administration in the canton of Jazirah which was appointed by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), indicated that presidential elections will also take place in PYD-controlled regions: »All Syrians have the right to exercise these activities [to vote]. We had hoped that all sides would be in agreement before elections take place.« Speaking to the same TV-station, his deputy, Husayn Aʿzam, described the presidential elections as a democratic act; every citizen had »the right to exercise his right to vote«. By contrast on May 25, 2014, the chairman of the PYD, Salih Muslim, stated to the Arab newspaper al‑Hayat that there would be no polling places in the Kurdish regions. According to Muslim, the regime has no presence there and there would be no one who could protect the polling places. At best, he said, it would be possible for the regime to set up polling places in the city of al‑Hasakah and in several of the government-controlled Arab districts in al‑Qamishli as well as at the airport there.
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