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Titolo: Syria's multiparty election campaign gets into full swing

Syria's multiparty election campaign gets into full swing
 
MICHAEL JANSEN in Damascus
 
UNDETERRED BY three powerful explosions overnight, Damascenes celebrate 
the May Day holiday by sleeping in, lounging in parks, braving traffic 
jams, and sitting over small cups of Turkish coffee or lattes in 
smoke-filled cafes.
 
The sky is a dull beige, the air filled with fine yellow dust. A 
sprinkle of dirty rain stains buildings, cars, and roads the colour of 
the surrounding desert.
 
The campaign is in full swing a week ahead of the country’s first 
multiparty parliamentary election. Posters are plastered on every 
available wall space; banners drape over squares. Nine newly licensed 
parties have been formed to challenge the front dominated by the Baath 
Party, which has ruled since 1972. Half a dozen unlicensed parties and 
scores of independents have also emerged since reforms were introduced 
last summer.
 
However, parties rooted in religion, sect or ethnicity, banned in the 
new constitution, still have to operate underground. These include the 
Muslim Brotherhood and Kurdish and Assyrian parties.
 
Critics of the decision to go to the polls on May 7th argue that new 
political forces have not had time to develop and formulate distinct 
programmes attractive to an electorate uncertain of where the political 
process is going.
 
As in post-uprising Egypt, new parties are uttering unprecedented 
criticisms of the government but cannot form a coalition to seriously 
challenge the regime. Newspapers are freer in expressing their opinions 
than ever before – but limits remain.
 
In his flat on a hill overlooking the busy Mezze district, George 
Jabbour, an academic and former member of parliament, says he is 
optimistic. He points out that UN ceasefire monitors, deployed under the 
peace plan put forward by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, are doing 
their best to report in a neutral way about adherence to the truce. The 
seizure by Lebanon last week of three weapons-filled containers on a 
ship bound from Libya to the rebels has shown that the government’s 
claims of external powers fuelling the conflict must be taken seriously, 
he says.
 
There are other reasons for optimism, he adds. “The Syrian people are 
split” but all three parties – the regime, the opposition and the rebels 
– “are tired of the situation,” causing the powers intervening in Syria 
to back off to a certain extent. “All are looking for an excuse for calm 
to return. The bombings are the last effort” of violent groups seeking 
to stoke civil conflict.
 
Walking with friends along the Mezze autostrade, in search of the UN 
ceasefire monitors, we pass families taking a stroll. Pasted on the 
entrance of a building is the death announcement of the third Syrian Red 
Crescent volunteer who lost his life trying to reach wounded people in a 
contested area. “So many have died,” says Muhammad as a funeral 
procession wends its way slowly through heavy traffic. “It will take 
decades for us to reconcile.” The Arjaa hotel apartments where the 
vanguard of the UN monitoring mission is based is a multistorey mall 
with a UN blue glass facade.
 
There are no white UN vehicles in the lot – the monitors are visiting 
the rebel-held neighbourhood of Khaldiyeh in the central city of Homs 
and other areas. Quizzing the reception staff, I find 20 single rooms 
are let, indicating that the vanguard team has not yet reached 30.
 
Even though in some neighbourhoods opposition activists stage a cheerful 
protest, handing out flowers to passersby, the bloodletting continues. 
Activists report that 10 people died in an army mortar attack in the 
northern farming village of Mishmishan, and a 13-year-old boy was killed 
in the nearby town of Maaret al-Numan, once a rebel stronghold. A dozen 
soldiers are said to have been slain in a clash with rebels in the east.
 
Syrian state television says scores of rebel fighters are handing in 
their weapons, turning themselves into the authorities, and being released.
 
  - More than 34 children have been killed in Syria since a shaky truce 
between the president Bashar al-Assad’s security forces and opposition 
groups began on April 12th, a UN envoy said yesterday.
 
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0502/1224315456808.html
 
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 Ma piantala, CIALTRONEH
 
Sei anche tu a-democratico a corrente alternata e su base etnica, 
dannunziano del piffero?
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 vi cacate addosso?
 
In genere no, però seguiamo alcune delle norme igieniche dei nostri 
antenati: "Mangia bene, caca forte, e non aver paura della morte."
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 Non e' una tradizione degli antenati abbruzzesi?
 
Non credo che gli abruzzesi abbiano di queste tradizioni, per la verità 
non credo le abbia nessuno, salvo nella tua fantasia morbosa.
Comunque non ho antenati abruzzesi.
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Syria's multiparty election campaign gets into full swing
 
comicissimi... 
 

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Ecco un altro a-democratico.  Ce n'è parecchi in giro.
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Ecco un altro a-democratico.  Ce n'è parecchi in giro.
 
immagino che la tua fosse una risposta inoltrata alla tua coscienza :-) 
 

 Syria's multiparty election campaign gets into full swing
 
ROTFL
 
 
-- 
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of  freedom, must, like men,
undergo the  fatigues of supporting it.”  - North Idaho 21st Batallion of
Light Foot

 immagino che la tua fosse una risposta inoltrata alla tua coscienza :-)
 
No, era una risposta a te, che ridi delle prossime elezioni in Siria.
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 Abruzzesi e campani, una faccia una razza :)
 
Sarei fiero di avere antenati campani, o anche abruzzesi, ma che io 
sappia non ne ho.
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Persio ha scritto:
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Perchè ?
 
 
 

Il 05/05/12 00:55, Der Bildungsphilister ha scritto:
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Così può danzarne i balli tradizionali e, sopratutto, sgrifarne i piatti 
tipici.
 
PP
 

 i piatti tipici.
 
Chiamalo pirla!
 
 
-- 
*Sunspot*
Man, living at home is such a drag
Now your mom threw away your best porno mag
(Busted!)

 Chiamalo pirla!
 
Io invece danzo e sgrifo quando "abruzzesi" e "campani" si aprono al
dialogo uscendo dal particolarismo cha causa diffuso odio nei loro
confronti
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 Chiamalo pirla!
 
 
Quello sempre. Ma si può anche senza rivendicare fieramente origini DOC, eh.

 Io invece danzo e sgrifo quando "abruzzesi" e "campani" 
 
 
Potremmo introdurre un "sanniti", rigorosamente fra virgolette ?

Il 05/05/12 09:21, Der Bildungsphilister ha scritto:
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Se non si è pirla. Se lo si è...
 
PP

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L'area di diffusione sannita, però, non si estendeva su tutto l'Abruzzo 
(e nemmeno su tutta la Campania): ci vorrebbe prima una precisazione da 
parte dell'interessato.
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 confronti
 
Dovresti vederli al mercato: sono impareggiabili.
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Il 05/05/12 09:22, Der Bildungsphilister ha scritto:
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Non so: i "sanniti" sono un sottoinsieme degli "abruzzesi" e dei "campani".
 
PP

 Dovresti vederli al mercato: sono impareggiabili.
 
Portano berretti di pelo d'agnello?
 
PP
 

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Chi più di loro?
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 Se non si è pirla. Se lo si è...
 
 
Giusto.

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Si insultano con vergognose frasi razziste, stabilendo così un incontro tra
culture ostili ma affratellate da uno stesso spazio commerciale?
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 culture ostili ma affratellate da uno stesso spazio commerciale?
 
Se lo fai in un mercato di Napoli non ne esci intero.
 
PP
 

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Mi sa che anche a quello di Gerusalemme non scherzano.
Ma la fantasia dei pirla non si ferma di fronte a minuzie del genere.
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 Ma la fantasia dei pirla non si ferma di fronte a minuzie del genere.
 
Figuriamoci!
 
PP
 
 

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:jo1hkh$3t5$1...@dont-email.me...
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parlare di elezioni libere e multipartitiche in Siria sotto il fuoco 
dell'esercito governativo ha dei lati comici...