Syrian parliamentarian calls for a new constitution
Syria, Politics, 12/11/2002

In what seemed to be preparations for the next session of the People's Assembly ( parliament), member of the Syrian parliament, and the candidate for the Progressive National Front, Munzir Mousalli, called for a new constitution and new elections law, stressing the need to bring back the role of the People's Assembly in overseeing the executive authority.

In a press conference, which is the first for a Syrian parliament member following the imprisonment of the two Syrian former parliamentarians Riad Seif and Mamoun al-Homsi, Mousalli said he extended three memorandums to the speaker of the Syrian parliament Abdul Qader Qaddoura to this effect.

Al-Moussali expected a special pardoning for the two quitted parliament members. He said replying to a question on the difference between his call "to finding a new constitution for the state" and the "accusation of changing the constitution illegally," because of which Seif and al-Homsi were jailed, that the two men wanted to change the constitution "for their own interests, rather than the interests of the people."

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