26/07/2011
“We’re still scratching our heads. It’s absolutely useless,” said Shakeeb al-Jabri, a founding member of a new Syrian political group, the National Bloc. The group will not be racing to register, he said, “because we would have to pledge the supremacy of the Baath Party.”
Syria’s government announced details of a new law permitting the formation of opposition parties but the move seems unlikely to defuse a four-month old uprising.
