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Presidential candidate will work to open dialogue between Al-Assad and the opposition

Damascus (Syria), May 22 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Youssef Badawi) Syrian presidential candidate Mahmud Marai, from the internal opposition tolerated by Damascus, affirms in an interview with EFE that he is working to open a dialogue between opponents, including exiled ones, and the Government of Bashar al Assad, mediated by its great ally, Russia.FOOTAGE OF THE INTERVIEW WITH SYRIAN PRESIDENT CANDIDATE MAHMUD MARAITRANSLATION: 1. "I represent the Front, the Syrian Democratic Opposition Front, which is made up of six political forces, and I represent a front of the Syrian people or the Syrian opposition, both internal and external."2. "Sure, I have contact with the internal national opposition, as well as the external opposition, and there are several important figures from Cairo, Moscow platforms and the coalition who contacted me and supported my electoral program and are ready to be part of a Syrian-Syrian national dialogue conference to be held in Damascus because this is the way out and I am working on this plan for a long time, and we are ready to hold a SyriaN national dialogue conference in Damascus with the presence of Syrian authority and internal and external opposition under international or regional supervision, mediated by Russia that would guarantee the back and forth of Syrian opponents from outside Damascus, we are working on this important step. " 3. "I believe that every Syrian citizen has the right to run for president; in the current constitution neither Christians nor women have the right to stand for election, we want to build a state of equal citizenship that allows any Syrian citizen to comply with the conditions to be presented, of Syrian parents, who do not have dual nationality, not married to a foreigner ... etc. and they are international conditions ... but who is not a Christian or a woman ... well no ". 4. "There are no objections to normalization even with Qatar, in politics there are no permanent enmities or lasting friendships, I see the interest of the Syrian people and the Syrian State in normalizing relations, and at the same time, it is necessary for Syria to return to occupy its seat in the Arab League, but with objectivity, and sovereignty, I cannot accept that it occupies this seat, the National Council, the Coalition, the Higher Constitutional Commission, this platform or the other ... there is a Syrian state, and so the sovereignty is indivisible. "