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On Sunday, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad issued a decree announcing the formation of the new government headed by Hussein Arnous, without any changes to the sovereign portfolios.
According to the decree published by the presidential accounts, Assad kept the ministers of the sovereign, foreign, defense, interior, economy and media portfolios, and changed the ministers of 12 portfolios, including those of finance, electricity and health .
The Arnous government is the fifth since the conflict began in 2011, and the current government includes three women.
On Tuesday, al-Assad assigned Hussein Arnous, who temporarily handed him over as prime minister more than two months ago, to form a new government weeks after the People’s Assembly elections.
The current government will continue until next July (after ten months), the presumed date for the next presidential elections, after which it promises to rule the resignation and continues its procedures pending a presidential decree appointing a new government. according to article 125 of the Syrian Constitution.
The new government faces many difficulties that previous governments faced, in a context of suffocating living crises and an unprecedented depreciation of the local currency. This triggered a spike in the prices of food and goods across the country and led some stores to close their doors recently.
The Arnous administration will face more difficulties after the US administration imposed a new package of sanctions last June under the so-called Caesar Act.
The new sanctions, which hit the first pack of 39 people or entities, including Assad and his wife Asma, are the most severe in Syria. In July, Washington announced a new list of 14 additional entities and individuals, including Hafez (18), the oldest son of the Syrian president, and then announced a third package last week that included political, military and financial figures, including the adviser. of Assad’s media, Luna Al-Shibl.
After nine years of war, Syria is experiencing a suffocating economic crisis, recently exacerbated by measures to address the Covid-19 epidemic. The situation was made worse by the accelerated economic collapse in neighboring Lebanon, where many Syrians are depositing their money.
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