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On the details, al-Assad met with employees of the Information Ministry, with their families, on Sunday, in parallel with the issuance of decisions appointing them to their new positions. The various press releases of the regime, and was previously in charge of its press office, and Muhammad Ali Zahra, who was appointed director of the Programs Directorate of the Radio and Television Corporation.
This came after Al-Assad issued the decision to appoint the press, Luna Al-Shibl, on Saturday, to the position of his special adviser, maintaining his previous duties, according to what was circulated by the regime’s media, in your documented accounts.
Mumtaz Al-Sheikh, the former director general of the Syrian Radio and Television Corporation, who defected from the Assad regime years ago, said al-Assad’s meeting with employees of that level was “very surprising,” adding: “Al-Assad will not meet with general managers except in very special cases.” According to his words. “
The sheikh added, in the context of his interpretation of the “strange” meetings that Al-Assad held, “The reason is that Assad has become carefree foreign after most countries boycotted his regime,” and He added that “Assad is now” holding events “to” make news “and that Al-Assad began holding such meetings to show that he cared about” his employees and their families “, especially with” the suffocating suffering of Syrians. during this time”.
On the other hand, al-Assad also met with the families of his employees, without indicating the reason for these particular family gatherings, and they came together with the positions of his new sons. Mumtaz al-Sheikh scoffed, commenting on the news of al-Assad’s meeting with the families of his new employees, saying: “This is a new opening Bashar, in him, it is likely that these new meetings and appointments are related to the Assad’s candidacy for the presidency next year, explaining that the president of the regime wants to present himself at these meetings as “close to the general public.”
For his part, opposition journalist Ghayath Kanao, who has worked in the Syrian media for more than a quarter of a century, confirmed that “Assad’s recent meetings” are surprising. It is likely that Assad has complied with them, because “he has them in the next stage, especially with the next presidential elections after months.” His statements in which he considered that Al-Assad’s meeting with employees, without the rank of minister, is “very incomprehensible.”
Describing Assad’s meeting with the aforementioned officials, not others, as “an unclear move of importance, Kanao felt that Assad’s message from that meeting is that these are a red line for him, and he is not allowed to get close. to him “, and emphasized that” these meetings mean that “Behind the hill behind him” and saw “that there is a possibility that there is a role for Luna Al-Shibl, Assad’s newly appointed special adviser, in order to “contain the media and dominate them away from the Ministry of Information”, revealing that the whole issue is “questionable and surprising” and that “something Mysterious cannot be understood.”
On the other hand, Kanao said, “Assad’s move with new appointments and ambiguous meetings” and “incomprehensible” in the media sector, may reflect the bankruptcy of the Syrian regime, at all levels.
It is worth noting that al-Assad’s recent appointments in his media sector, which were described as complete, coincided with the appointment of journalist Luna al-Shibl, his special adviser, and the cub was aware of his proximity to Asma al- Akhras, the wife of the head of the regime, who was considered by some observers of Syrian affairs, an expansion of the Asma domain. In other sectors of the country, in addition to the economy, which are also the media.
The Syrian opposition website “We Are All Partners” said Luna Al-Shibl deported Amjad Issa from the press office at Al-Assad Palace and appointed Osama Shahoud, an expert on the Turkish dossier, as a replacement.
In the same context, Syrian journalist Ayman Abdel Nour, director of the opposition website “We are all partners”, raised the question of what he described as the “comprehensive campaign” that Assad is conducting to run for president. , next year, and Abdel Nour believes that the meetings and appointments of Assad The latest is “to move to the second stage of preparation for the presidential elections, which provides for the presentation of new faces.” Based on that plan, Assad will change “all the faces of the media and raise the ceiling of freedoms with different media coverage.”
Abdel Nour revealed that the Assad regime, “will function according to the plan to run for elections, not only on the axis of the media, but on the axis of its foreign policy, as well as the axis of students in particular, as that they are “the second largest bloc after the workers”, highlighting that what is happening in Syria now. It is the presidential campaign, “especially after the image of Assad, in the country, has gone” below zero ” , in the words of journalist Ayman Abdel Nour.
