Shaaban indicated that the start of the party’s tenth national conference means that the regional leadership and the central committee are dissolved until the last day of the conference in which the central committee will be elected. This committee, previously composed of 70 members, is scheduled to elect the current national leadership, which will be reduced from 21 members to 15.
Informed Syrian sources revealed that a heated discussion took place between Khaddam and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa during the conference, after which the former submitted a request to be relieved of his position.
