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Titolo: Syrian opposition figures urge election boycott

La cosiddetta opposizione siriana (con base a Londra) teme le elezioni e 
chiama a boicottarle.
 
Lo fece anche in occasione del referendum costituzionale: il risultato 
fu che il 57.4% degli aventi diritto al voto andò a votare, nonostante 
le minacce di attentati e i disordini.
Il che significa che la cosiddetta opposizione siriana (con base a 
Londra, con finanziamenti sauditi, con armi francesi inglesi e turche) 
non rappresenta affatto la maggioranza dei siriani, nemmeno di quelli 
sunniti.
 
Ora riprova con un altro boicottaggio, fiduciosa nel supporto totale 
della propaganda dei cosiddetti paesi "democratici", e già ha allestito 
una serie di attentati terroristici (ma "democratici" in questo caso) 
per convincere a suon di bombe i siriani che è essa, e solo essa, a 
doverli rappresentare, conformemente alle decisioni prese a Washington.
 
Nel frattempo i gipponi bianchi targati UN passeggiano sui boulevard 
delle città siriane guardandosi bene dall'accostarsi ai seggi: il 
pericolo è che debbano rilevare la sostanziale correttezza del voto.
 
Il loro compito è solo quello di "dimostrare" guardando altrove che il 
piano Annan è fallito e che occorre passare al piano B.
 
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Syrian opposition figures urge election boycott
May 06, 2012 11:13 AM (Last updated: May 06, 2012 11:55 AM)
By Karin Laub
Associated Press
 
BEIRUT: Exiled Syrian opposition figures on Sunday urged voters to 
boycott an upcoming parliamentary election, dismissing it as a cynical 
attempt by President Bashar Assad to hold on to power.
 
The regime has portrayed the vote set for Monday as a sign of its 
willingness to carry out reforms. The election for a 250-seat parliament 
comes three months after the adoption of a new constitution that allows 
for the formation of political parties to compete with the ruling Baath 
Party.
 
However, Assad's opponents say reforms without their input are a farce 
and that elections cannot be held under the threat of guns. A 
U.N.-brokered truce last month has failed to halt a brutal regime 
crackdown on a 14-month-old uprising against Assad.
 
"We are against these elections because they don't have any of the 
characteristics of free elections," said Haytham Manna, head of the 
National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria, one of the 
main opposition groups.
 
"It's a kind of joke. It is a kind of propaganda from the regime," added 
Haitham Maleh, a human rights lawyer and former senior member of the 
Syrian National Council, an umbrella for several opposition factions. 
"The real opposition will not go to vote."
 
Manna spoke from Brussels and Maleh from London.
 
Since the outbreak of Syria's popular revolt in March 2011, the regime 
has made a series of gestures to try to allay the crisis, but also kept 
up its attacks on centers of rebellion. The U.N. says more than 9,000 
people were killed in the first year of the uprising.
 
In February, the new constitution was approved in a referendum. It 
allows for the formation of new political parties and limits the 
president to two seven-year terms. Syria has been ruled by the Baath 
party since it seized power in a coup in 1963 and the Assad family has 
ruled since Bashar's father Hafez took over in another coup in 1970.
 
Eleven new parties are participating in Monday's election, along with 
the 10 parties of the National Progressive Front, an alliance dominated 
by the Baath party. Election officials said nearly 15 million of Syria's 
roughly 23 million people are eligible to vote.
 
In a pre-election day appearance, Assad on Sunday laid a wreath at a 
monument for Syrian troops in the Qasioun Mountain area overlooking the 
capital Damascus, the state-run SANA news agency said.
 
Earlier this week, SANA reported that a pro-regime candidate, 
Abdul-Hamid al-Taha, was gunned down in the southern city of Daraa in an 
attack it blamed on "armed terrorists," the term the regime generally 
uses for opponents.
 
The election comes more than three weeks after an April 12 cease-fire 
aimed at paving the way for political talks between Assad and those 
trying to bring him down.
 
The truce, brokered by special envoy Kofi Annan, has failed to take 
hold, though U.N. observers say it's helped bring down the level of 
violence. Regime forces continue to attack opposition strongholds and 
carry out arrests, while refusing to withdraw troops and tanks from the 
streets, as required by the Annan plan. Rebel fighters continue to 
target soldiers in shootings and bombings.
 
Currently, some 40 U.N. observers are in Syria, and the contingent is to 
reach 300 by the end of May. U.N. officials hope the deployment of more 
observers will gradually calm the situation, and Annan's spokesman says 
the peace plan remains on track.
 
The U.S. government last week offered a bleaker view, saying it is 
perhaps time to seek another approach. However, the international 
community remains divided on Syria, and Assad allies Russia and China 
would likely block harsher U.N. Security Council measures.
 
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/May-06/172501-syrian-opposition-figures-urge-election-boycott.ashx
 
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 pericolo è che debbano rilevare la sostanziale correttezza del voto.
 
 
R   O   T   F   L
 
Ci sono 40 osservatori UN in Siria, Persio. In tutto. Proprio un'analisi 
serena, la tua.
 

chiama a boicottarle.
 
non hanno fatto aprire loro la sede a Damasco, secondo te come mai? :-)
 
Il resto si commenta da se... 
 

 Il resto si commenta da se...
 
Eh, non è così facile...
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Eh, non è così facile...
 
la propaganda non ha necessità di troppi commenti