ADtv - Pilihan raya Syria tidak memerlukan pengesahan Barat untuk dianggap sah, ia adalah suara2 rakyat Syria sendiri yang membuat undi sah, penasihat media Presiden Assad, Bouthaina Shaaban memberitahu RT.
Kemenangan ‘victory’ Bashar Assad minggu ini di dalam pungutan suara presiden Syria dengan 88.7 % peratus undi, Shaaban berkata, jelas menunjukkan walaupun bahawa negara yang dilanda perang mempunyai hak untuk menentukan masa depan sendiri, kerana beberapa 11 daripada 15 juta pergi ke pemilihan.
"Kami tidak benar-benar menunggu kesahihan dari Barat," kata Shaaban, menuduh negara-negara Barat dan Arab yang mensasarkan Syria, melengkapkan dan membiayai pembangkang kejam bercanggah 3 thn panjang. "Rakyat Syria bukan sahaja mengundi utk Presiden Assad, saya fikir mereka mengundi utk Syria. Mereka mengundi menen-tang asing.
WEST has no RIGHTt to give or REFUSE Syrian people legitimacy - Assad's advisor . . .
The Syrian election does not need Western endorsement to be considered legitimate, it is the voices of Syrian people themselves that make the vote legitimate, President Assad’s media advisor, Bouthaina Shaaban told RT.
This week's Bashar Assad victory in the Syrian presidential poll with 88.7 percent of the vote, Shaaban says, clearly shows that even a war-torn country has the right to decide its own future, as some 11 out of 15 million went to the polls.
“We are not really waiting for legitimacy from the West,” Shaaban said, accusing Western and Arab countries of targeting Syria, arming and financing the brutal opposition in a 3-year-long conflict. “The Syrian people not only voted for President Assad, I think they voted for Syria. They voted against foreign.
Bouthaina Shaaban, utusan daripada Presiden Syria Bashar al-Assad (Bouthaina Shaaban, envoy of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (Reuters)
Sebagai Syria pergi ke pemilihan pada Selasa, jurucakap Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat Marie Harf menerangkan undi sebagai "memalukan," berkata Assad "tidak mempunyai kredibiliti yang banyak hari ini bahawa dia lakukan semalam."
"Detached daripada realiti dan tdk mempunyai penglibatan politik, rejim- Assad dipen-taskan pilihan raya hari ini terus warisan keluarga 40 tahun penindasan ganas yang kejam menghancurkan perbezaan pendapat politik dan gagal memenuhi aspirasi Syria 'untuk keamanan dan kemakmuran," kata Harf.
Sebagai tindak balas kepada Barat, dan terutamanya kritikan Amerika Syarikat pilihan raya, Shaaban sekali lagi mengulangi bahawa Amerika Syarikat tidak menetapkan standard kesahihan global.
"Saya ingin mengatakan kepada semua pegawai Barat yang mengatakan mereka tidak akan mengakui ia – adalah yang datang hari-hari apabila kesahihan berasal dari Barat. Barat tidak mempunyai hak untuk memberikan rakyat kita kesahihan. Ia adalah orang-orang Syria yang membuat pilihan raya ini yang sah. Ia tidak William Hague, mahupun Amerika Syarikat, mahupun Perancis."
Syria, penasihat media itu berkata, tidak peduli apa yang Barat fikirkan apa kerana rak-yat pasti "bahawa negara-negara Barat hanya sasaran kami, hanya mahu memus-nahkan negara kami."
Beliau berkata pilihan raya yang sah dan juga di kawasan-kawasan yang dilanda perang negara orang berjaya untuk mengundi.
"Apabila kita mengkaji negara ini, kebanyakan penduduk adalah di kawasan-kawasan di mana mereka boleh mengundi. Kami tidak bercakap mengenai ruang geografi. Kita bercakap tentang orang . . . Orang ramai mudah alih, bangunan mereka yang anda tidak boleh bergerak dari satu tempat ke tempat yang lain. Dan oleh itu rakyat Syria mengundi dan berkata undi mereka."
Tambahan pula, Shaaban kata Presiden Assad lakukan segala-galanya dalam kuasanya untuk memastikan bahawa pesaing lain dalam perlumbaan presiden jangka 7 tahun menerima pendedahan awam maksimum untuk membenarkan pilihan demokrasi di negara ini.
"Sejak pencalonan daripada 3 calon, Presiden Assad memutuskan untuk tidak memberi apa-apa kepada mana-mana temu bual media, tidak memberikan apa-apa ucapan, untuk tidak membuat sebarang penampilan awam untuk memberi ruang kepada kedua-dua calon supaya mereka boleh memberi temu bual, mereka boleh bercakap dengan orang, supaya mereka mendapat lebih diketahui. Saya fikir Presiden Assad melakukan yang terbaik untuk meningkatkan peluang 2 lagi calon."
Setakat nasib selepas pilihan raya Syria, Shaaban mengatakan bahawa semua orang "mahu mengembalikan keamanan dan keselamatan" & untuk membina semula negara ini. Tumpuan juga akan diberikan kepada perdamaian.
"Mereka mahu membina negara mereka. Dan mereka mahu lakukan perdamaian, Syria - Perdamaian Syria"
As Syrians went to the polls on Tuesday, US State Department spokesperson Marie Harf described the vote as “a disgrace,” saying Assad “has no more credibility today that he did yesterday.”
“Detached from reality and devoid of political participation, the Assad regime-staged election today continues a 40-year family legacy of violent suppression that brutally crushes political dissent and fails to fulfill Syrians' aspirations for peace and prosperity,” said Harf.
In response to Western, and especially US criticism of the election, Shaaban once again reiterated that the US does not set the global legitimacy standards.
“I would like to say to all Western officials who say they will not acknowledge it – gone are days when legitimacy was derived from the West. The West has no right to give our people legitimacy. It is the Syrian people who make this election legitimate. Its neither William Hague, nor the US, nor France.”
Syrians, the media adviser says, don't care what West thinks what because citizens are certain “that Western countries only target us, only want to destroy our country.”
She says the elections were legitimate and even in war-torn regions of the country people managed to vote.
“When we studied the country, most of the population are in areas where they can vote. We are not talking about geographical space. We are talking about people... People are mobile, they are not buildings that you can’t move from one place to the other. And therefore Syrian people voted and said their vote.”
Furthermore, Shaaban says President Assad did everything in his power to ensure that other contenders in the 7-year-term presidential race received maximum public exposure to allow a democratic choice in the country.
“Since the nomination of the three candidates, president Assad decided not to give any interviews to any media, not to give any speeches, not to make any public appearances in order to give space to two candidates so they can give the interviews, they can talk to people, so they get more known. I think President Assad did his best to elevate the chances of the other two candidates.”
As far as the fate of post-election Syria, Shaaban says that everyone “wants to restore peace and security” and to rebuild the country. The focus will also be on reconciliation.
“They want to build their country. And they want to do reconciliation, Syrian – Syrian reconciliation.”
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