Al-Moallem: No one can impose his will on the Syrian people

Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem cast vote for the presidential election at the Cabinet election center on Tuesday.

Al-Moallem said in a statement “No one grants legitimacy except the Syrian people,” hailing the Syrian people’s massive turnout to the ballot boxes.

“The Syrians register today their free will in democratic, transparent elections to elect who will lead them in the future,” al-Moallem added.

He greeted the Syrian people who marched to the ballot boxes on this historic day, saying “No one can impose his will on the Syrian people.”

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Al-Moallem added that Syria begins today to return to rebuilding, making national reconciliation and go ahead in the political solution track to solve the crisis.

Al-Moallem: Will of the Syrians through voting begets unavoidable reality

In this regard, al-Moallem said the will of the Syrian people through voting will impose a reality that no one can ignore.

In an interview on al-Mayadeen TV Tuesday, al-Moallem said that the majority of the Syrians want security to be restored and terrorism to be eradicated and want to accomplish the national reconciliation processes.

“As for the stances of the West, I want to ask what is democracy, isn’t the governing of the people by the people through ballots, is not that what the Syrians are exactly practicing,” he said.

Answering a question on the estimation of the number of voters that are allowed to vote in and outside the country, Minister al-Moallem said that no one can give accurate number in this regard as there are Syrians inside the country, abroad forced to stay in refugees’ camps in neighboring countries and expatriates.

Al-Moallem said that Syria had called a group of MPs in addition to journalists to observe the voting process, adding that the Syrians who are voting in Aleppo, Homs, Lebanese-Syrian borders under shells and threats are the real Syrians.

He said that the hot zones do not contain electoral centers but the majority of the residents of these areas have gone to participate in voting in safe areas.

Al-Moallem stressed that the Syrians are adherent to the unity of their country and that terrorism phenomenon embodied by “The Islamic State in Iraq and Sham”, “Jabhet al-Nusra” and the “Islamic Front” are temporal phenomena that do not reflect the will of the Syrian people.

On whether there is coordination with Syria regarding fighting terrorism, with talks of a meeting that has taken place recently in Turkey for this end, al-Moallem said “We know there are operation rooms to support and abet terrorists in Turkey and we have not felt a will nor a desire of the UN and its organizations to counter terrorism.”