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The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that the Syrian constitution doesn’t allow federalism and that the federal structures created by the Kurds in northern Syria “are temporary”. This although the majority of Syrian Kurds want federalism or decentralization in areas under the control of Kurdish forces.
Assad said that the local self-administrations set up by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and their allies in northern Syria are temporary.
“They take advantage of the absence of the state in a number of areas in the north in order to create specific social structures, which take a political form, in order to manage people’s affairs, and they talk about federalism. These are temporary structures,” he said about Rojava.
“These factions [Kurdish parties] are diverse: some patriotic, some mercenary, and some seek separation and federalism. The scene is very diverse and complicated. We cannot take a clear position. It depends on the case,” he said.
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Its going to be very interesting to see how Assad is going to deal with the Kurds in Rojava (Northern Syria). Kurds in the area have set up their own autonomous region governed on the principles of democratic confederalism, socialism and gender equality. Now the leading parties in Rojava has called for a future Rojava to be part of Syria under a federalist system. Assad is now saying that will not happen because of the Syrian Constitution currently does not allow it and Rojava being autonomous is just temprorary. I hope that Assad does not follow through in forcing the Kurds to join back into Syria under the old system where Kurds were essentially second class citizens. I do believe that the only way for a future Syria to be more stable and peaceful its either going to have to be a Syria built on federalism or Syria will have to be partitioned.