Homeland Party: Foreign interventions are the most important obstacles in region

The Syrian Homeland Party organized a dialogue seminar in the city of al-Hasakah to shed light on the challenges facing the democratic model in the region. It was attended by a group of academics, activists and politicians who exchanged views on how to develop and strengthen the democratic system.

The seminar was moderated by the Secretary-General of the Homeland Party, Thabet al-Jawhar, the Head of the Youth Office in the Syrian Homeland Party, Khader Daham, and the Head of the Women's Office, al-Hasakah Branch, Helen Ali.

The participants discussed the definition of democracy, whether building democracy is the responsibility of the authority or society, who plays the biggest role, and the obstacles to strengthening democracy in North and East Syria.

They pointed out that strengthening democracy in a society requires the availability of the societal structure and the economic and political situation in which this society lives, and that the obstacles that stand in the way of democracy are customs, traditions and old societal systems; because they depend on the majority and generate "classism" within them.

The participants stressed that external interventions, whether material or intellectual, such as large companies and capitalist thought, negatively affect the implementation of democracy, in addition to the existence of fixed intellectual barriers such as religion or party affiliation, and the loss of the culture of the components that lead to societal fragmentation.

The dialogue seminar concluded with a set of recommendations that will be delivered to the relevant parties with the aim of advancing the democratic process in the region of North and East Syria.

T/ Satt.

ANHA