Analysts and media figures from around the world keep pace with the presidential elections

Damascus, (ST) – Delegations of analysts and media figures from different parts of the world visit Damascus to participate in keeping up with and covering the constitutional elections to elect the President of the Syrian Arab Republic.

In a statement to SANA, the American activist and analyst Paul Laroudi said that, it is important for the world, especially the American people, to see the reality of what is happening in Syria, where the Syrians participate in the electoral process to choose their president. He described the Syrians’ celebrations in support of the constitutional entitlement as “amazing.”

He pointed out that what the world saw in Lebanon, Brazil, and other areas, of Syrians in large crowds ready  to participate in the elections affirms the importance of these elections for them. These elections are more important than the American elections for the Americans themselves, as the Syrians are trying to tell the world clearly that “no one dictates to them who their president will be. The Syrians have proven that they support the government of their country. “.

Laroudi indicated that he is visiting Damascus with a delegation that includes members of American, European, Canadian and African nationalities. A number of Syrian expatriates in the United States of America are also keeping pace with the elections.

Mbu Masimula , from South Africa, who is part of a delegation that includes activists from global solidarity movements, said that, our role today is to support peoples and resistance movements in the world and to accompany the elections in Syria. We see the Syrian people deciding their future and choosing democratically their representatives. He stressed that no country or power in the world has the right to interfere in Syria’s internal affairs and the election process there. We express our hope that these elections will be free and fair, in which the Syrians will decide their future.

Among the media delegations, Roman Pervezitensif of the Russian Central Channel program said that, we met a number of Syrian citizens and we found that people are very interested in the elections and insistent on exercising their constitutional right.

Masib Naimi, editor-in-chief of the Iranian newspaper Al-Wefaq, explained that, he is a member of a delegation representing a number of Iranian agencies and media interested in keeping up with the presidential elections in Syria and getting acquainted with the mechanisms and the conduction of the electoral process, especially with the arrival of the Syrian people to the recovery phase from a crisis that was stirred against their country. He considered that, the importance of the elections lies in the fact that Syria is one of the few Arab countries in which real and fair elections are held.

Raghda Sawas