Or never. Or they could choose to enjoy a farce in the mode regularly put on by Iran, where all the candidates at every level must be approved by a committee of Mad Mullahs, so elections are an exercise in choosing among insiders.
[IsraelTimes] Rebel chief who ousted Assad says drafting a new constitution could take three years, subsequent changes could take anotherHolding elections in Syria could take up to four years, Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview with Al Arabiya on Sunday, the first time he has commented on a possible timetable for elections since Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
was ousted this month.
Drafting a new constitution could take up to three years, Sharaa said in excerpts from the interview with the Saudi state-owned broadcaster. He also said it would take about a year for Syrians to see drastic changes.
Sharaa leads the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...group that ousted Assad on December 8, ending decades of Assad family rule and a 13-year civil war. He said HTS will be dissolved in a national dialogue conference.
On foreign ties, Sharaa said Syria has strategic interests with Russia. Russia has military bases in Syria, was a close Assad ally during the long civil war, and has granted Assad asylum.
Sharaa said earlier this month that Syria’s relations with Russia should serve common interests.
Sharaa also said he hopes the administration of US President-elect Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
will lift sanctions imposed on Syria. Senior US diplomats who visited Damascus this month said Sharaa came across as pragmatic and that Washington has decided to remove a $10 million bounty on the HTS leader’s head.