Mari: I invite all Syrians to participate in the presidential elections and choose the most qualified candidate to serve Syria, and I respect any outcome decided by the voters.

Damascus - Sana

The candidate for the presidency of the republic for the opposition, the Syrian Democratic Front, Mahmoud Ahmad Mari, called on all Syrians to participate in the elections and choose the most efficient candidate and the best program to serve Syria, stressing that he respects any outcome decided by the Syrians.

In an interview with Al-Suriya TV, Al-Mari indicated that Syria was subjected to aggression and a conspiracy, but at the same time there were right and legitimate demands, and the crisis required a political solution and more participation and activation of political life, stressing that everyone who calls for tightening sanctions against Syria is an agent and traitor because these sanctions are prolonged. Syrian citizen and affected his life.

Mari said: There are foreign parties that wanted to destroy Syria and implement a Zionist-American desire in the region, just as they destroyed Iraq and Libya, and we, as a political opposition, have real reform demands, and despite all that we suffered at that stage, we do not sell our homeland and we do not abandon Syria. Against the American-Zionist project in the region. This is why we started the dialogue with the Syrian state on April 24, 2011 to lay down a road map for how to get out of the crisis.

Question: Our meeting today with the candidate for the presidential elections, Lawyer Mahmoud Ahmed Mari, who received 35 votes in written support from the members of the People's Assembly, and who today we saw in his advertisements and electoral publications the phrase “the national opposition candidate” .. Let's start from the phrase “the national opposition candidate.” Are you considered Yourself as a representative of the internal opposition, especially since some of them said that you do not represent them and what is the percentage of your representation on the ground ...

Mari: I am a candidate on behalf of the Syrian Democratic Front for the Opposition, which includes six parties, including licensed parties, including those under license, including bodies under license, bodies, currents and independent figures from the national opposition .. Of course, there are other groups of the opposition after I proposed my electoral program, they sent support and approval for me and my program. From the internal national opposition and from the external patriotic opposition. I am not a candidate for the internal or external opposition .. I am a candidate for the opposition Syrian Democratic Front .. For everyone who accepts my program, whether it is from the internal or external national opposition.

Question: What is the percentage of representation on the ground ...

Candidate Mari said: I am a true opposition figure, opposition figure, and former political prisoner who has been banned from traveling for a long time ... There are people who claim internal opposition and they have nothing to do with the opposition and have never practiced opposition ... The issue is not an allegation ... the issue is reality .. I was arrested in In 1986 until December 1991, that is, five and a half years on charges of belonging to the popular Nasserite organization, and I was also arrested in 2006 for two months under the pretext of signing the "Damascus Beirut Declaration" and when it was proven to the judiciary that I did not sign this statement, I was released and I did not go to court and the matter ended. That is, I was banned from traveling for five years .. I am an opponent on the ground and opposition from father to grandfather. I practiced opposition and began joining the national opposition from the seventies when I was a student in high school and at the university.

Question: If we talked in the electoral statement that you put forth today ... you mentioned in your statement that the army is a red line and that arms should be limited to it ... How would you describe what we have seen during the past ten years of practices that some of what they call themselves are opposing to members of this army ...

Candidate Mari: From the beginning of the events, I was against killing and blood and against the use of weapons by all parties .. The crisis in Syria required a political solution, more participation and more activation of political life, but unfortunately there are external parties that were drawing Syria .. They wanted to destroy Syria that wanted To implement something or an American Zionist desire in the region as they destroyed Iraq and Libya .. A simple example… At the beginning of the events, I learned that there was an armed group that bombed a radar that was watching the airspace .. It monitors missiles and aviation and monitors the enemy's movement .. This radar does not have artillery, machine gun, or “R” BG "bombing people ... if you destroy a radar of the Syrian Arab Army ... why .. of course this point gave me a deep reflection ... that we are being subjected to aggression and we are subjected to a conspiracy, and at the same time there are right and legitimate demands of the national opposition, so we started the dialogue with the Syrian state on the 24th of April 2011 to lay down a road map for how to get out of the crisis, but external intervention ...He started entering the Syrian territories through Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, and the language of blood became the predominant language and there were countries supporting armed groups .. Of course we are political opposition, we have real reform demands, but when Syria is in danger, despite the arrest, despite the travel ban, and despite everything we have suffered from the political power in that The stage: We do not sell our homeland nor give up on Syria .. We are a unitary and Arab ideology and believe in the struggle and the fight against the American-Zionist project in the region .. How do these meet with this ... They will not meet .. So I prepared my calculations and retreated from many ideas and began to search for how to get out of Politically the crisis.We are a unitary and Arab ideologue and believe in the struggle and fighting against the American-Zionist project in the region ... How do these meet with these ... they will not meet ... So I prepared my calculations and retracted many ideas and began to search for how to get out of the crisis politically.We are a unitary and Arab ideologue and believe in the struggle and fighting against the American-Zionist project in the region ... How do these meet with these ... they will not meet ... So I prepared my calculations and retracted many ideas and began to search for how to get out of the crisis politically.

Question: Also, in your election statement, you called for support of civil society ... What exactly do you mean by civil society ... and what are the controls for civil work in your opinion ... I mean, such as funding, supervision and so forth ...

Candidate Mari: I head the Arab Organization for Human Rights, and I have an idea about civil society in the European Union countries among the Americans .. There are groups that fund civil society activities that hold training courses in countries of the world that invite members of civil society or those who work in charitable societies and support and empower women, youth and so on. These centers provide money, hotels, and services, and as a result of this session, they pay 200 or 300 dollars, and the international intelligence services consider who we want to be recruited and be a spy on their country, so I called in my electoral statement to empower civil society so that the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor supports civil society to be supported by the Syrian state and whoever Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor because we do not want spies for our country to be manufactured by the European Union or the Americans.

Question: In your election statement, you demanded the lifting of the sanctions and the siege on Syria .. In your opinion, do you think these sanctions were designed to raise demands or bargains, especially since there are Syrians who call themselves the opposition who demanded these sanctions and their tightening ... Moreover, there are those who are currently employed by the American administration To strengthen the weaknesses in Caesar’s law and in the new law that is being worked on in the coming sanctions so that there is no way left for the Syrian state to escape from it .. I am talking here about the new penal code that is being prepared for in the event that it tries to evade it to reduce the burden on the Syrians ...

Mari: The unilateral sanctions were put in place by the American administration to put pressure on the Syrian state and the Syrian people .. they moved from the military war to the economic war .. There is an economic war on the Syrian people and the Syrian state that affected the lives of the citizens .. The difficult economic and living conditions that the Syrian citizen is experiencing are As a result of sanctions, and of course, as a result of corruption, waste and thefts ... the theft of Syrian resources ... oil, gas, cotton and grains are stolen across the Syrian island to northern Iraq to Turkey with support and coordination with the "SDF" forces .. "Qasd" is different with Turkey and "Qasd" is backed by the United States ... The "SDF", the Americans, northern Iraq and Turkey agree to steal the Syrian resources of oil, grain and cotton .. If the goal is to weaken the resources and weaken the Syrian state ... Of course I demand the lifting of sanctions, and anyone who calls for intensifying sanctions from an external opposition is an agent and traitor because these sanctions affect the Syrian citizen. You influenced his life and affected our lives with everything ..The salary of a Syrian employee became 50,000 pounds, which is not enough for ten days, so I demanded that my electoral program link wages with the cost of living with the economic situation, and at the same time, these resources must be freed so that they are added to the Syrian state budget so that the Syrian citizen can live in dignity.

Question: You demanded a real representation of the opposition in your electoral manifesto ... What is the required representation in your opinion ... Is there also this kind of constructive opposition who can contribute to leadership positions or does that withdraw or may be in order to withdraw from them the justification of their livelihood, their dependence and their dependence on the outside ...

Mari: Political life in Syria is weak and participation is almost non-existent .. I have been working in politics for 40 to 45 years .. As an opponent, as Mahmoud Marai, and as a candidate for the presidential elections, I demand real representation for the internal, national, internal and external opposition .. We want to activate political life in Syria .. I want to participate With the decision-making and the implementation of the decision, the Syrians cannot remain confined to the Ba'ath Party and the National Progressive Front .. This is a party we respect .. We have relations with it, but it is not enough .. it is necessary for the other opposition spectrum not represented by this National Progressive Front .. We want to participate For the opposition, the Syrian Democratic Front, and we want the participation of the internal and external national opposition .. There are important figures in the opposition at home and abroad who are patriotic, who did not sell themselves to regional and international agendas, did not live, and did not accept to live in five-star hotels or with countries that pay in riyals, dollars or dinars.

Question: In the electoral statement you kindly received today and which was presented, I called for a national conference, and I named it in the electoral statement ... what is the possibility of holding such a conference ... and also who will attend ... Candidate Mari: The Syrian National Conference and the Syrian-Syrian National Dialogue are a necessity to get out of The crisis and finding a political solution .. I, as a candidate for the presidential elections, see 2254 of the Syrian version .. I see Sochi transferred to Damascus .. I see that the first and second consultative meeting in Moscow return to Damascus .. We are Syrians and the solution is in the hands of Syria .. The dialogue is Syrian. The result .. We have to agree on the solution in the presence of the Syrian state and the presence of the internal and external national opposition, and there may be supervision of the Astana group, the BRICS countries, and the true friends of Syria ... not for those who impose sanctions, nor for those who steal and plunder the Syrian resources.

Question: You are today on the national media, and you also had previous appearances on other national stations .. How do you evaluate or see the performance and abuse of this media during the past ten years .. During the war years, we talk here ...

Marhi: Of course, at the beginning, I did not appear on the Syrian media, and I put a condition when I wanted to appear on the Syrian media. I want a direct broadcast in order not to tamper with the conversation, but after a while I appeared on the Syrian media and accepted the recording because there are many Syrian national stations that were registered and did not change One letter, and I criticized the Syrian media inside Syria more than I was outside Syria, and when I showed up on the Arab and international media because I care about the Syrian issue and was interested in exposing mistakes and defects for the sake of construction .. We want Syria to be better, not worse, so we stood against weapons and against sabotage. And against the entry of groups of militants from all countries of the world in order to kill and destroy the infrastructure of Syria and the Syrian people ... Those who slaughtered, flayed and destroyed were people paid from abroad ... from countries that pushed them and sent them across the seas to the Syrian Arab Republic ...At the same time, there are groups inside Syria of the opposition, unfortunately, linked to regional and international agendas, and there are a number of fallen opponents who visited the Zionist enemy ... How could this one who went to the Zionist enemy or be hostage to the Turkish or to the Gulf or to the Americans to contribute to building the Syrian economy or the Syrian constitution or The future of Syria .. They have tied themselves to their operators. That is why I say .. the task of building Syria and getting out of the Syrian crisis is the task of the Syrian state and the internal and external national opposition.

Question: Was this the reason you appeared on channels or media that are partners in shedding the blood of the Syrians?

Mari: I appeared on the media and all the media at the beginning of the events and I was speaking on behalf of the Arab Organization for Human Rights and I was equal among the citizens .. I did not differentiate between a civilian or a military .. All of them have victims and all of them are equal from the beginning of the events, but the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel asked me to speak a specific language Boycotted it ..

I told them I will never appear on Al Jazeera at all .. No one is imposing what I want to talk about on Arab and foreign TV channels, because I know my interest and the interest of the Syrian people and the Syrian state, and I want my country better. I can not be a tool for the Gulf or anything else .. I am not an eyewitness and I am not financed by No one, and I will not receive funding from any country, neither a friend nor an enemy.

Question: In the electoral manifesto, you demanded a greater role for women ... How do you see the reality of women in Syria and their role before the war and during the war until today?

Mari: The woman suffered ... the woman is a martyr's mother, the wife of a martyr and the sister of a martyr, and the woman has a great mission, especially after the occurrence of many Syrians' martyrs and victims. Therefore, women have to contribute to political life and build a political future for the Syrian state and contribute to building and attendance in the parliament and is present but relatively in the ministry In social and political life, all of this requires us to raise the level of participation of women and to enable them to participate and know in our society, and if a large number of women run and did not reach parliament, but when there is a "quota" then the quota is obligatory .. This is the empowerment of women.

Question: You are a lawyer and one of the founders of the Arab Organization for Human Rights in Syria and you remembered it a while ago .. You also hold the position of its head of administration .. And as you mentioned and as we found in your CV .. What is your assessment of the role of this organization since the beginning of the war on Syria until now ...

Mari: The Arab Organization for Human Rights was established in 2004, before all these events .. At the beginning of the events, the Arab Organization for Human Rights was contributing to the issuance of a daily statement of what is going on in Syria with absolute neutrality among all Syrians in the field of human rights .. I am not opposed in a field human rights..

I am a Syrian citizen working on the same distance between the authority and the opposition, and I am ready to defend the civilian and military wounded and the civilian and military martyr, and expose the violations of the militants and the state, and everything is with absolute neutrality .. We are not an opposition as an Arab human rights organization, and of course we were part of the Syrian Federation for Human Rights, which is still until Today, statements are issued about all that is going on in Syria, including violations, killings, beatings and destruction .. Of course, our position is clear .. We are against violence, against arms, against the use of weapons, and against the arrival of extremists and terrorists to Syria, at the same time even though the Syrian citizen lives in his dignity and no one attacks it.

Question: Part of the Syrian Federation for Human Rights is concerned with this ...

Mari: Of course, I am vice president of the federation, and the federation includes several human rights organizations .. The Arab organization is part of a regional organization in Cairo, and the federation is part of an international organization .. The Syrian federation is also concerned with the issue of human rights and human dignity in Syria.

Question: I contributed with you as an organization ...

Merhi: Still until now.

Question: And she was able to offer something or help ...

Mari: Daily data so far .. There are statistics about everything that happened in Syria at the Syrian Federation for Human Rights.

Question: We go back to your electoral program .. During the preparation for this meeting, I and the preparation team did not find clear points that indicate your position on the resistance and the Palestinian issue .. Today you are on the Syrian screen and we want to know your viewpoint on these issues from you.

Marai: My electoral program included that I am against the Israeli occupations of the Golan and the Turkish General of Iskenderun and the border strip between Syria, Turkey and the United States of the Syrian island .. My standing against the occupations is support for the resistance .. support for our central cause which is the Palestinian issue .. I am an Arab and I believe in the Arab national project hostile to the Zionist-American project in The region and I believe that what was taken by force can only be recovered by force, whether in the Golan, with the Turks, or with the Americans .. The American will not leave the Syrian lands except with popular resistance .. Of course I did not detail everything in my program, but when I said that I am against the occupations then I support the resistance project With the alliance of resistance and with allied and friendly countries supporting Syria, of course I am against every country that has conspired against Syria, every country that has provided money to terrorists, and every country that has contributed to the sanctions against Syria because it exhausted the Syrians.

Mari added: The Syrian does not have enough medicine .. Some medicines are missing because of the sanctions .. When did the Syrian citizen get the bread bundle with a smart card .. This is new because Syrian wheat, Syrian cotton and Syrian oil are stolen from the Americans .. And now the Turks have weakened and reduced Syria’s share of The Euphrates River .. If there is a regional and international conspiracy against Syria, and at the same time there are support countries such as the Russian Federation, China, Iran, the BRICS countries, Venezuela and Algeria .. All of these supportive countries we stand with and coordinate with them, and we see that these countries are friends with Syria and the Syrian people.

Question: When we asked about representation and a candidate, you mentioned that you are a candidate for the opposition Syrian Democratic Front .. Regarding the rest of the opposition parties in Syria, there are voices who said that you do not represent them .. You are only a candidate for them and you receive support only from the opposition Syrian Democratic Front, or are there other opposition parties It also got its support, but its percentage and representation on the ground are weak .. We speak as a real representation exists.

Mari: I am the son of the Syrian street, the Syrian opposition, and the Syrian Arab nationalist movement. It is present in political life and is known in the Syrian street for my positions, as it stood against the occupations and against the countries that invaded Syria, and one day I was in Yusef al-Azmeh Square and I was coming to Syria from Cairo and there was a planned strike on Damascus .. Coincidentally, I left Yusef al-Azmeh Square and the Syrian TV came and asked me about my opinion, although I did not appear on the Syrian media, but I had to tell them and I am still saying it and is committed to this idea .. Everyone who claims and demands aggression against his country is a traitor .. Of course television is the most prominent of these. The word and insults began to come to me from the foreign opposition .. I mean, we are traitors .. I told them .. whoever calls for aggression against Syria is a traitor .. When America or any other country is bombed, any neighborhood can be a target, and it is possible to bomb my house if you are an opponent or a loyalist. .When there is external aggression against Syria, we are in one trench and in one boat, and when this boat sinks we all drown, and when this boat goes, we all march ... we are working as a serious opposition in order to build Syria and build people .. Building and reconstruction are not only stone, we want to build Stone, build projects, and build Syrian people because investing in people is the most important investment.

Question: You included an Arab current and the Syrian Democratic Front, and you mentioned that you are a candidate for it ... Practically what you presented through your contact with the rest of the Arab brothers in other Arab countries during these years ...

Merhi: My friends are Lebanese Nasserists, Egyptian Nasserists and Tunisian Nasserists, and when any delegation visits Tunisia, they feel that there is a people and a street in support of Syria and in Lebanon, Egypt, Bahrain and in every Arab country .. This is the role of the Arab trend that stands by Syria and stands against the American-Zionist aggression in the region .. this Arab positions .. the Arab and the Arab street differs from the official Arab system, which is linked to treaties, agreements, conditions and issues related to Gulf money, American money and American pressure, but the street in Tunisia does not care about these issues and the street in Egypt, Lebanon, Mauritania and the entire Arab world ..I have visited a large number of Arab countries and touched the Syrians ’love for the Egyptians. The Egyptian loves the Syrians, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Bahrain. All these countries have a special love for the Syrian people and have a special appreciation for Syria and see that Syria is the state of resistance and resistance that stands in the face of the Zionist enemy and stands against the American arrogance and fully knows these peoples. That the Americans want to destroy Syria and the Syrian army so that this Zionist entity would be the largest entity and the largest armies in the region, but the will of the resistance and opposition alliance with the Russian, Iranian and Chinese allies, and all of these countries were partners with us .. There are Russian officers who were martyred on the land of Syria, as well as Iranians and from all countries. The world and there are from the Palestinian Liberation Army, there are martyrs from Lebanon, and there are many martyrs who died on the Syrian land .. If this Arab dimension of Syria is a very important dimension, and Arab rule is the one that will restore reconstruction in Syria of course within the framework of a project for a political solution in Syria.

Question: Through your contact with the opposition, whether at home or abroad, and in the electoral manifesto, you mentioned the necessity for there to be opposition persons in the government .. And you mentioned before that everyone who asks or praises for an aggression against his country is a traitor and not an opponent regardless of his opinion .. and hate Regardless of anything .. there are still constants .. and today you are an opposition candidate and sure you communicated after accepting the candidacy request .. how was the abuse ... and who are the people and not necessarily mentioning the names ... Do these opponents really have a weight and they are the ones you described a little while ago that they did not accept that They buy or sell and their positions remain constant, whether at home or abroad ...

Mari: After my candidacy for the presidential elections, a decent number of foreign opposition contacted me and said to me .. we are with you and with your electoral statement after you announced it .. and we see that the political solution and a Syrian-Syrian national dialogue conference held in Damascus is the way out .. and if it is our destiny and our work on it. With this project, you will see in Damascus faces of the national, external and internal opposition, participating in political power in rebuilding Syria, and participating in a government of national unity.

Question: Do these names that have communicated with you weight and have an effect ...

Merhi: Of course, I cannot communicate with those who have sold themselves to regional and international agendas.

Question: I do not mean here who sold himself, but rather who I communicated with ...

Mari: Yes, there are important personalities, including those in the Constitutional Committee ... and there are personalities from the Constitutional Minor Committee who contacted me and they are ready to be part of the election program for the presidential candidate, Mahmoud Merhi.

Question: The founders of the Arab Organization for Human Rights in Syria and part of the Syrian Federation for Human Rights .. What is happening in the northeast against the people there .. And you just mentioned the Turkish issue and the reduction of Syria’s share of water and what happened there and other details .. and that There is daily documentation and daily statistics presented ... and I, as a citizen, are now watching ... what you can offer me or do on the ground and change it ... on the Turkish issue, for example with regard to water and the theft of resources ...

Mari: The federation has statistics on the practices of the "Qasd", kidnapping of residents, recruitment, theft of resources and imposing taxes. It also has statistics on Turkey's actions in Afrin, Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ain. There are many cities whose residents have been completely displaced and it is imagined that about 200 thousand displaced people from Afrin have been replaced and changed demographically. .. If this point is important .. the Syrian citizen is abandoned and forced to be displaced from his home, farm and village to other cities, and he is replaced .. I am against these positions as a federation or as an Arab organization, and it is not permissible for these practices to take place .. All of this is the role of the Arab Organization for Human Rights and the role of The Syrian Federation for Human Rights in documenting and exposing the violations of the Turks, the Americans, the “Qasd” and all the Israeli, Turkish and American occupation forces and those who cooperate with them.

Question: What is the influence of those opponents who you mentioned have a strong representation abroad and did not accept to buy or sell and that they are real opponents ... What is their influence, and you called for the lifting of the economic blockade and the sanctions ... What is their ability in practice and what is their percentage Against the many voices that unfortunately support and support and are mortgaged to the American and their employees and are working to find and strengthen weaknesses in the Caesar Act or in the new penal code that is being worked on against Syria ...

Mari: Of course, there are personalities from this opposition who contacted me .. They were present in Sochi .. Part of it was in Sochi .. If those who attended Sochi came in Damascus .. And of course there is the supreme body for negotiation and coalition, and these groups associated with Gulf and Turkish agendas did not attend Sochi. ... and that even though there are opposition political groups affiliated with Turkey who attended and arrived in Sochi, but did not enter the conference .. Therefore, I say that I am with the internal and external national opposition in order to prepare for a Syrian-Syrian dialogue conference to be held in Damascus under the auspices of the Astana countries or sponsored by the BRICS countries .. what is important in the result is that The dialogue is Syrian-Syrian, that the production is Syrian-Syrian, and that we build with the Syrians' hands, Syria, and by Syrian will.

Question: The dialogue in Damascus has practically been raised previously, and there were voices even in Sochi who talked about moving the dialogue to Damascus, but everyone knows the severe attack that was launched against it by many other opponents and many other countries, and therefore there are those who withdrew their words and retracted their position and there are those who were excluded and I I ask now ... Under these circumstances and the great pressures, are you optimistic about the possibility of holding this conference ...

Mari: There must be a political solution and a Syrian-Syrian dialogue must be held .. And there is a conference held in the Sahara at the beginning of the crisis .. so why should we hold a Syrian-Syrian dialogue in Ebla al-Sham and for the Syrian opposition from abroad to enter Ebla and return with guarantees.

Question: Did you ask this question to them because, in practice, the state in Syria was calling for this issue ...

Mari: Everyone says we want guarantees ... and of course they can accept Russian guarantees, and this is an achievement .. The Russian state can be a partner and it is an ally, and it is possible after a period of good intentions not to demand guarantees .. If preparation for a Syrian-Syrian conference and a Syrian-Syrian dialogue on Syrian soil is possible To start with the will of the Syrian state and the will of the internal and external national opposition, and there are voices that supported this project with my statement and supported this paragraph and communicated with me. They are important and prestigious personalities who are not linked to regional and international intelligence agendas because those connected do not communicate with them .. Whoever visited the Zionist enemy, I do not speak with him .. They are in the coalition, I am not talking to them .. There is a large part of the opposition figures abroad who are patriotic, and we want these people to return to Syria and practice their political life in Syria .. Some of them are independent and others are affiliated ...We in the National Action Committee have opponents outside Syria, and on the front we also have opponents outside Syria, and there are many friends in the political forces who are outside Syria, in the constitutional committee and in the mini-committee ... and when they accept the Syrian-Syrian dialogue on Syrian soil, they should be welcomed.

Question: There is no disagreement on that .. they accepted that ...

Mari: They told me that they have accepted and are ready to come to Damascus and attend the conference if it takes place and there are large numbers of non-famous people as well .. and here I am talking about the famous and well-known a lot .. There are also many citizens who want to return to Syria and embrace the homeland, and there are many that the United States of America prevents them in a camp. Rukban from returning .. In Jordan as well, they are not allowed, and in Lebanon and Turkey .. they want to employ these refugees as a sword hanging over the neck of Syria and the Syrian state, but we want to end this tragedy .. We want all the Syrian citizens to return to Syria and to secure life for them. This requires the beginning of a political solution .. Of course, I will move to a second issue, which is that I was surprised that 35 MPs from the Syrian Parliament supported the opposition.

Question: In your words, Professor Mahmoud drew me to the fact that there are many figures who are outside the issue of the Syrian Democratic Front in practice, they supported you and communicated with you from abroad, and they are personalities that have weight .. So the question was in practice about them because there is an image that most of the people abroad are either a coalition or They are under direct support, sponsorship, and funding from countries or others ...

Mari: For information ... of course, I know from within the opposition exactly who is financed or not funded and who is related or not connected .. all exposed .. the Syrian opposition abroad and at home is fully known .. everyone who receives money and everyone who takes bribes and everyone He works for agendas .. Whoever puts the Mandate flag on his left and the Turkish flag on his right and makes a statement of support for the Turkish occupation .. What can we hope for?

Question: Some of them refused even the conviction ...

Mari: There is a statement signed by a large number of this opposition calling for the renewal of economic sanctions and the imposition of more of them on Syria .. Of course these people do not deal with them and everyone who signs these statements do not deal with him .. Rather we are dealing with people of the national opposition at home and abroad .. and these They work for the sake of Syria and its interest, the interest of the Syrian people, and so on, no.

Question: About you obtained written support from 35 members of the People's Assembly and you were a candidate for the Syrian Democratic Front .. How did you communicate with these members in the Council and how were you able to obtain those support and based on what was your election statement issued today .. So did the support come on an old date? On him personally, or is the front the one who obtained this support for its candidate, Mahmoud Mari?

مرعي: لدي أصدقاء في البرلمان السوري وهم يتابعونني على الإعلام السوري والإعلام العربي ويعلمون تماما ما هو مشروع محمود مرعي للحملة الانتخابية الرئاسية وغير الرئاسية.. وهم يعلمون تماماً أنني لا يمكن أن أكون جزءا من العدوان على بلدي.. ويعلمون تماما أن محمود مرعي ضد المشروع الأمريكي الصهيوني في المنطقة وأنه ضد السلاح وحمل السلاح ومع الحل السياسي في سورية.. إذا أنا أشكر هؤلاء النواب الأكارم المستقلين الذين منحوني التأييد وأيضا الدولة السورية عندما تعمل وتسهل للمعارضة الوطنية أن تكون شريكة في الانتخابات الرئاسية وأن تساهم بهذا الاستحقاق.. إذا هناك بداية تفكير جديد.. ونحن كمعارضة وطنية من المفروض أن نتمسك بهذه الفكرة ونعمل على تطويرها.. فالموضوع ليس موضوع استحقاق وانتخابات رئاسية فقط وإنما مستقبل بلد.. ومستقبل سورية.. وبالتالي يجب أن نعمل جميعا من أجل تطوير وتحسين حياة المواطن السوري.. كيف سيتم ذلك… بجهود الجميع.. ولذلك قلت في حملتي الانتخابية:”معا للإفراج عن معتقلي الرأي والأسرى والمخطوفين وتكريم أسر الشهداء” فهناك أسرى وهناك مختفون قسرا وأشخاص غير معروفي المصير منذ بداية الأزمة لدى الطرفين.. لذلك يجب بذل جهد من أجلهم.. وبنفس الوقت تكريم أسر الشهداء لأن الشهداء قدموا وكذلك أسرهم من زوجات وأطفال ما يتطلب أن ترعاهم الدولة بشكل أكبر من ذلك وبنفس الوقت عندما أقول بـ “حكومة وحدة وطنية تشاركية” لابد إذا من المشاركة وتفعيل الحياة السياسية.. وكل ذلك هو مشروع المعارضة الوطنية وطبعا أتمنى كثيرا من الشعب العربي السوري وكل السوريين أن يدرسوا برنامجي الانتخابي ويمنحوا صوتهم للبرنامج الانتخابي الذي يناسبهم.

سؤال: هل كنت تتوقع الحصول على الـ 35 تأييداً…

مرعي: أنا عندما قالت قناة روسيا اليوم أنه ممكن أن تحصل “فلانة وفلان” سواء كنت أنا أو… ولم أكن المرشح على الحصول.. كنت بعد أو.. وأنا لا أعرف كيف تسرب الموضوع إلى قناة روسيا اليوم.. لكن يجوز أن النواب في البرلمان قدروا أن هناك تجربة جديدة يجب أن تشارك المعارضة الوطنية فيها وتساهم بهذا الاستحقاق وأن يكون لها دور وأن نفتح الحوار السياسي.. إلى آخره.. وطبعا هذه هي حسابات البرلمان السوري وأنا شكرت النواب الذين أعطوني الثقة.. ولم أكن أتوقع أن أحصل على 35 صوتاً من البرلمان.. وهذه خطوة جريئة للبرلمان وللدولة السورية ومني كمعارض.. فليس بالأمر السهل أن أخوض انتخابات رئاسية.. حيث يجوز أن تلحقني الشتائم واللوم من المعارضة ومن الموالاة ولكنني بنفس الوقت مؤمن بالمشاركة وتفعيل الحياة السياسية وبدور تكاملي بين المعارضة والموالاة وبين كل أطراف وتنوع الشعب السوري.

سؤال: بعدما قرأ الأعضاء الذين أعطوك التأييد بيانك الانتخابي.. هل كانت هناك ملاحظات منهم…

مرعي: الأغلب يؤيدني ويتصل بي وحتى من النواب.

سؤال: بصفتك أول مرشح معارض يدخل سباق الانتخابات الرئاسية في سورية.. ما الذي يمكن التوجه به للسوريين اليوم لإقناعهم للتوجه إلى صناديق الاقتراع في يوم الانتخابات المقرر في الـ 26 من شهر أيار والإدلاء بأصواتهم لصالحك وخاصة أنك ذكرت قبل قليل أن موقفك صعب سواء من جهة معارضين يحاولون تصويب النيران عليك وشتمك وغير ذلك وأيضا من موالين كان لهم موقف معين وغير ذلك.. ما الذي تتوجه به…

المرشح مرعي: أقول للشعب السوري.. سورية في خطر وخطر حقيقي والمواطن السوري يعاني أزمة اقتصادية خانقة والموارد السورية تسرق من قبل الاحتلالات الصهيونية والتركية والأمريكية وعلينا جميعا وأقول معا وفي إطار حملتي الإعلانية أن نكون معا من أجل مؤتمر حوار سوري سوري.. معا من أجل حكومة وحدة وطنية.. معا من أجل الإفراج عن معتقلي الرأي والأسرى والمخطوفين وتكريم أسر الشهداء.. معا من أجل أن نصل بسورية إلى الأفضل.. سورية البلد المتنوع الجميل يجب أن يكون أفضل.. برنامجي بين أيدي السوريين وأطالب كل السوريين أن يقرؤوا البرنامج ويطلعوا عليه وأن يتواصلوا معي ويمنحوني صوتهم في الانتخابات الرئاسية.

وأضاف مرعي: أنا سوف احترم إرادة الناخب السوري وأي نتيجة يقررها السوريون احترمها وأدعو كل السوريين إلى المشاركة في هذه الانتخابات الرئاسية وأن يختاروا البرنامج الأفضل والمرشح الأكفأ لخدمة سورية وبنائها.