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Al-Assad placates southern Syria before elections
President of the Syrian regime Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma al-Akhras (edited by Enab Baladi)
Enab Baladi-Louay Rhebani
Less than two months before Syria’s presidential elections, scheduled to be held in April, the Syrian regime has accelerated a number of measures to calm tensions prevailing in the southern part of Syria, including As-Suwayda and Daraa.
This raises several questions about the method the Syrian regime adopts when governing the two regions of southern Syria, as well as whether the Syrian regime is at all concerned with improving voters’ deteriorating living conditions, where 90 percent of voters live below the poverty line.
Friday, 29 January, 2021 - 07:45
Syrians visit the residence of spiritual leader Hikmat al-Hijri, local media outlet Suwayda 24 Daraa - Riad al-Zein
Tension prevailed in the countryside of west Daraa Thursday after the “Fourth Division” of the Syrian regime’s army, led by Maher Assad, warned to attack the region.
The Fourth Division had threatened to launch a wide-scale ground and air operation in western Daraa if opposition factions failed to expel six former fighters and commanders from the area to north Syria, hand over their heavy and medium weapons and allow the Division to set up checkpoints around Tafas.
Opposition activists said that for the second consecutive day, the central committees in Daraa, in addition to representatives of the Russian-backed 5th Corps and tribal leaders negotiated with officers from the Fourth Division and the pro-regime security committee in Daraa, in the presence of a Russ