Statement of public opinion on the draft constitutional declaration submitted by the interim government

We in the Syrian Democratic Council declare our complete rejection of the constitutional declaration submitted by the interim government, and as stated in our previous statement on February 26, 2025, the so-called “National Dialogue Conference” was not fair in representing social components or political entities, and the Syrian Democratic Council affirms that everything that builds on the results of this conference will remain insufficient to address the national issue.

This draft reproduces authoritarianism in a new format, entrenching central governance and granting the executive authority absolute powers while restricting political action and freezing the formation of parties, disrupting the path of democratic transition, and ignoring the absence of clear mechanisms for transitional justice, which further deepens the national crisis.

We strongly reject any attempt to reproduce dictatorship under the cover of the “transitional period”, and we affirm that any constitutional declaration must be the product of a real national consensus, not a project imposed by one party, accordingly, we call for the reformulation of the declaration in a way that guarantees a fair distribution of power, guarantees freedom of political action, recognizes the rights of all Syrian components, and adopts a democratic decentralized system of government, with clear mechanisms to achieve transitional justice.

Syria is a homeland for all its people, and we will not accept the rebuilding of the authoritarian regime.

March 14, 2025
Syrian Democratic Council