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| Main Syrian opposition group elects new president | |
| 2013-07-07 | |
| BEIRUT --The main Western-backed Syrian opposition group has elected a former political prisoner as its new president. The Syrian National Coalition says on its Twitter account that Ahmad al-Jarba received 55 votes of the 114-member council. The council also elected three vice presidents including Mohammed Farouk Taifour, a senior official with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The presidentÂ’s post had been empty since April when former SNC President Mouaz al-Khatib resigned, citing frustration over what he called a lack of international support and constraints imposed on the body itself. Since then, senior opposition figure George Sabra served as acting president of the SNC. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |