Seif regrets the absence of reforms
The opposition Syrian member of parliament Riad Seif has expressed "his regret" for the absence of actual reforms in Syria, just one year after President Bashar al-Assad assumed presidency in Syria.
In an interview published on Monday in the Belgian daily " Le Soir," Riad Seif said he feels regret, even frustrated because no actual reforms have been made neither on the political and economic levels not at the level of running the administration. He considered such changes as urgent.
Seif explained that the corruption fighting campaign which President Bashar al-Assad started before he arrived to power on July 17, 2000 " have been foiled by certain elements survived from the past phase in their attempt not to be punished for what they had done in the past," noting that " the presence of those in power is in contradiction with the reform campaign advocated by President Bashar al-Assad."
He stressed that " Damascus spring" which followed the accession of President Bashar al-Assad to power is the " natural outcome for our demands which were very humble: gradual building of the state's law, honoring of freedom, holding free elections, ending the state of emergency and all political, media and cultural monopolies."
