Opposition presidential candidate Mahmoud Marei, of the Syrian Democratic Front

From Ruptly, 17 May 2021 The candidate for the opposition Syrian Democratic Front, Mahmoud Marei, spoke on Sunday about his electoral programme ahead of the start of the election campaign for presidential candidates in Syria. Speaking from Damascus, Marei identified some of his priorities as being “the release of prisoners of conscience, the kidnapped and the forcibly abducted, and the honouring of the families of the martyrs, in addition to the formation of a participatory national unity government with the real participation of the opposition. Also the preparation for a Syrian-Syrian conference in Damascus attended by the current political authority and the internal and external national opposition.”