Ghalion Officially Resigns SNC
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The head of Syria's main opposition bloc, Burhan Ghalioun, formally resigned from his post, a statement issued by the so-called Syrian National Council (SNC)said on Thursday after a two-day meeting in Istanbul.
"The SNC office decided to accept the resignation and to ask the council president to pursue his work until the election of a new president at a meeting on June 9-10," it said.
Ghalioun announced his resignation on 17 May to avert divisions within the opposition bloc, after activists on the ground accused him of monopolizing power.
Ghalioun, who had led by consensus rather than through election since the SNC's founding in October, was elected as the exile group's chairperson in a vote held in Rome on 15 May.
He claimed after his plan to step down that he would remain an SNC member.
Hours earlier, the Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), a network of activists on the ground, threatened to pull out of the SNC over its lack of collaboration with activists in Syria and monopolization of power.
The LCC also criticized the SNC over the strong influence that Syria's Muslim Brotherhood wields over the coalition.
The head of Syria's main opposition bloc, Burhan Ghalioun, formally resigned from his post, a statement issued by the so-called Syrian National Council (SNC)said on Thursday after a two-day meeting in Istanbul.
"The SNC office decided to accept the resignation and to ask the council president to pursue his work until the election of a new president at a meeting on June 9-10," it said.
Ghalioun announced his resignation on 17 May to avert divisions within the opposition bloc, after activists on the ground accused him of monopolizing power.Ghalioun, who had led by consensus rather than through election since the SNC's founding in October, was elected as the exile group's chairperson in a vote held in Rome on 15 May.
He claimed after his plan to step down that he would remain an SNC member.
Hours earlier, the Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), a network of activists on the ground, threatened to pull out of the SNC over its lack of collaboration with activists in Syria and monopolization of power.
The LCC also criticized the SNC over the strong influence that Syria's Muslim Brotherhood wields over the coalition.
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