In an interview with Black and White magazine (owned by the son of Syrian Defense Minister Hassan Turkmani) published yesterday, Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam said in response to a question about the call to abolish Article 8 of the Syrian Constitution, which stipulates that the Arab Socialist Baath Party (is the leader of the state and society ), which gives the party the ability to formulate various policies in the country and to intervene and supervise its executive authorities. It is necessary to distinguish between the process of developing the party, the state and society, which is a national need and the right of every citizen, and the process of changing the system and replacing it with a new system.
Khaddam considered the first case a national need, as emphasized by the party’s leadership. As for the second case, which calls for changing and replacing the regime, it is an idea proposed by one of two people: either a simple person who does not realize the danger of this to the country’s future, security and stability and does not know what could happen after that. The second is that he knows the dangerous results, wants them, and seeks them for reasons that are not related to the country’s interests, but that benefit foreign projects on the one hand, and on the other hand, Israel, so that the state that bore the burden of resisting the Zionist project would disappear, and despite all the difficult circumstances, it remained steadfast in its national and national constants.
Regarding freedom of opinion and expression, Khaddam stressed that freedom is one of the natural rights of human beings, and there must be no restriction on the freedom of the individual, which only stops at the borders of society, but the wrong practices that occurred are not related to the policies of the party and the state, but rather due to a human error on the part of the individual or due to circumstances. The security forces imposed on the country.
