Related Research Articles
The politics of Egypt takes place within the framework of a republican semi-presidential system of government. The current political system was established following the 2013 Egyptian military coup d'état,and the takeover of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. In the current system,the President is elected for a six-year term. Furthermore,the President has the power to dissolve Parliament through Article 137. The Parliament of Egypt is the oldest legislative chamber in Africa and the Middle East. The unicameral Parliament has the ability to impeach the President through Article 161. With 2020 elections to the new Senate,the chamber became bicameral.
The political system of Qatar runs under an authoritarian semi-constitutional monarchy with the emir as head of state and chief executive,and the prime minister as the head of government. Under the Constitution of Qatar,the partially-elected Consultative Assembly has a limited ability to reject legislation and dismiss ministers. The second general election was held in 2021;political parties are banned and all candidates have to run as independents.
The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Egypt since its introduction in the 2019 Egyptian constitutional referendum and the subsequent 2020 Egyptian Senate election. The current president of the Senate is Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Razeq.
Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook is a Palestinian politician and senior member of Hamas who served as the first chairman of Hamas Political Bureau from 1992 until 1996 and deputy chairman of Hamas Political Bureau from January 1997 until April 2013,where he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh.
The Consultative Assembly is the legislative body of the State of Qatar,with 45 members. Following the 2021 Qatari general election,it has 30 elected and 15 appointed members. The body can only question the prime minister,who is appointed by the Emir of Qatar,on his policies if two-thirds of the members agree,which is unlikely given that one-third of the members are appointed by the Emir.
The People's Assembly is the legislature of Syria. It has 250 members elected for a four-year term in 15 multi-seat constituencies.
Idlib Governorate is one of the 14 governorates of Syria. It is situated in northwestern Syria,bordering Turkey's Hatay province to the north,Aleppo Governorate to the east,Hama Governorate to the south,and Latakia Governorate to the west. Reports of its area vary,depending on the source,from 5,933 km2 to 6,097 km2. The provincial capital is Idlib.
The government of Syria is currently in a transitional period led by the Syrian Transitional Government. The seat of the government is located in Damascus,Syria. The previous government consisted of a President,a Prime Minister,and a legislative council with 250 seats.
The Egyptian Social Democratic Party is a social liberal and social democratic party in Egypt. It was founded after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution by the merger of two minor liberal parties,the Liberal Egyptian Party,and the Egyptian Democratic Party on 29 March 2011.
Riad Mousa al-Asaad is a Syrian military officer and politician who is the founding leader of the Free Syrian Army. One of the prominent faces of the Syrian Civil War,he led the armed resistance to the Assad regime as commander-in-chief of FSA,during the early phase of the Syrian Civil War. Under Riad al-Asaad's command,FSA expanded into a paramilitary force of 75,000 guerillas and insurgents in March 2012;capable of ousting regime forces from Damascus. He currently serves as the Deputy Prime Minister for Military Affairs of the Syrian Salvation Government,a position he has held since 2 November 2017. He was a former Colonel in the Syrian Air Force who defected to the opposition in July 2011 and became the first Acting Commander-in-chief of the Free Syrian Army.
The modern history of Syria begins with the termination of Ottoman control of Syria by French forces and the establishment of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration during World War I. The short-lived Arab Kingdom of Syria emerged in 1920,which was however soon committed under the French Mandate,which produced the short-lived autonomous State of Aleppo,State of Damascus,Alawite State and Jabal al-Druze (state);the autonomies were transformed into the Mandatory Syrian Republic in 1930. Syrian Republic gained independence in April 1946. The Republic took part in the Arab-Israeli War and remained in a state of political instability during the 1950s and 1960s.
The Syrian opposition is an umbrella term for the groups that opposed the Assad family's Ba'athist regime in Syria. In July 2011,at the beginning of the Syrian civil war,defectors from the Syrian Arab Armed Forces formed the Free Syrian Army,a name that was later used by several armed factions during the conflict. In November 2012,political groups operating from abroad formed the Syrian National Coalition. In turn,the Coalition formed the Syrian Interim Government which operated first as a government-in-exile and,from 2016,in certain Turkish-occupied zones of Syria. In 2017,the Islamist group Tahrir al-Sham,unaffiliated to the Syrian National Coalition,formed the Syrian Salvation Government in the areas it controlled. Other groups that challenged Bashar al-Assad's rule during the civil war was the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army,the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria,and the jihadist organization known as the Islamic State.
Abu Khalil al-Madani was a member of al-Qaeda's Shura Council. Believed to be a Saudi,little was known about his views,however in a 2013 audio message released online,he repeated familiar Al Qaeda themes of the Muslim world being weakened by a lack of Islamic faith and American conspiracies. In April 2014,al-Madani released an audio statement attempting to mediate the conflict between Syrian-based Jihadist groups,Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The Syrian Interim Government (SIG) is an alternative government in Syria,formed by the umbrella opposition group,the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces. The Syrian Interim Government is a de facto quasi-state that indirectly controls some areas of the country and claims to be the sole legitimate government on behalf of the Syrian opposition in defiance of the Council of Ministers of the Syrian Arab Republic. The interim government's headquarters in Syria are located in the city of Azaz in Aleppo Governorate.
The Supreme Political Council is an extraconstitutional collective head of state and executive established in 2016 in Sanaa by the Houthi movement and the pro-Houthi faction of the General People's Congress (GPC) to rule Yemen opposed to the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) in Aden. The SPC carries out the functions of head of state in Yemen,appointing the country's cabinet and managing the Yemen's state affairs in a bid to fill in political vacuum during the Yemeni Civil War. The Council aims to outline a basis for running the country and managing state affairs on the basis of the constitution. Since 2018 the SPC has been headed by Mahdi al-Mashat as Chairman of the Council.
The Turkish Armed Forces and its ally the Syrian National Army have occupied areas of northern Syria since August 2016,during the Syrian civil war. Though these areas nominally acknowledge a government affiliated with the Syrian opposition,in practice they constitute a separate proto-state under the dual authority of decentralized native local councils and Turkish military administration.
The Syrian Salvation Government was a de facto unrecognized quasi-state in Syria formed in November 2017 by Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other Syrian opposition groups during the Syrian civil war. It controlled much of northwest Syria,and had an estimated population of over 4,000,000 in 2023. Its de facto capital was Idlib.
Ali Abdulrahman Keda is a Syrian politician and engineer who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Syrian Salvation Government since from 2019 to 2024.
Mohammed al-Bashir is a Syrian politician and engineer who currently serves as the 70th prime minister of Syria. He has led the Syrian Transitional Government since 10 December 2024,which was formed after the fall of the Assad regime.
References
- ↑ "Once longing for an 'emirate' in Syria, HTS now struggles for survival". Syria Direct. 2020-04-30. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
- ↑ Hugo (2020-04-24). "Salvation Government Elects New Shura Council President". The Syrian Observer. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  | This article about a Syrian politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |