The politician Mohamed Al Bashir was appointed this Tuesday prime minister based on the Syria transition until March, reported Syrian television, now controlled by the forces that have overthrown the Syrian regime. Bashar Al Assad.
“The interim government lasts three months under the presidency of Mohamed al Bashir”sources from the Syrian Political Administration told television, after holding a session of the Council of Ministers in which the powers of the cabinet of the previous regime have been transferred to a new Executive.
In this meeting, in which those responsible for Interior and Defensethere was the previous Syrian prime minister, Mohamed Ghazi al Jalaliand Al Bashir, among others, to transfer portfolios and “get the work started.”
“This order was from the General Command. We have been entrusted with leading the Syrian government until March 1, 2025.Al Bashir said in a televised statement, broadcast by the Saudi television channel Al Arabiya.
Mohamed al Jolanithe Islamist leader who led the offensive that overthrew Al AsSad, and the former Syrian prime minister Al Jalali were the ones who decided that Al Bashir He was going to lead this new era in Syria, which has lived more than five decades under the Al Assad family.
Engineer by profession, Al Bashir graduated in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the Aleppo University in 2007 and later in Sharia (Islamic law) in the Idlib Universitythe northeastern province that served as the main opposition fiefdom of the Government of Al Assad in recent years and where he is from.
In 2011, he worked at the Syrian Gas Company as head of the precision instruments department, according to his resume.
It also has different diplomas, among which its courses in advanced English stand out, as well as certificates in project management and administrative planning.
But he made the leap into politics after the popular revolts of 2011 against Al Asadwithin the framework of the call “Arab Spring” which subsequently spread throughout Syria and were harshly repressed by the Government of Al Asad and his allies, including Iran y Russia.
Al Bashir was appointed last January as head of the Salvation Governmenta kind of political branch that is linked to the Levant Liberation Agency (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham o HTSin Arabic), and whose headquarters are in Idlib.
Before becoming the head of the Salvation Governmenthe was Minister of Development and Humanitarian Affairs under the person who was then the head of that administration in Idlib, Ali Keda.
During that period of time, focused on modernizing this region so damaged by war and meet the humanitarian needs of the around three million people in that province, half of them displaced and who have suffered terrible attacks by the Syrian government and aviation bombings Russian.
(With information from AFP and EFE)
