Mahmoud Ahmad Marei محمود أحمد مرعي | |
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President of the Arab Organization for Human Rights | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Personal details | |
Born | 1957 (age 66–67) Talfita, Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria |
Alma mater | Damascus University |
Mahmoud Ahmad Marei (Arabic: محمود أحمد مرعي; born 1957) is a Syrian politician,[1] lawyer, current head of the Arab Organization for Human Rights,[2] and former secretary-general of the National Democratic Front, a small, opposition party.[3]
Biography
Marei was born in Talfita, Rif Dimashq. He studied law at the Damascus University and graduated in 1993.[4]
He is former president of the Youth Office at the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change. He was a member of the internal opposition delegation to the Geneva peace talks on Syria (2017).[5]
Marei was a candidate in the 2021 Syrian presidential election. According to the Daily Telegraph, "Few consider former state minister Abdallah Salloum Abdallah and Mahmoud Merhi, a member of the so-called 'tolerated opposition', serious contenders."[6] The Democratic Arab Socialist Union rejected the legitimacy of the elections and distanced itself from Mahmoud Ahmad Marei, saying he had been expelled from the party in 2013.[7]
References
- ↑ "C.V of Mahmoud mere in Arabic".
- ↑ "Syria elections: Polls open as Western countries slam 'illegitimate' vote - 26.05.2021". DW.COM. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ↑ Chehayeb, Kareem (2021-05-26). "Syrians vote in election set to extend al-Assad's grip on power - Bashar al-Assad News". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ↑ "محمود مرعي.. مرشح "مفاجئ" لرئاسة سوريا". al-ain.com. 26 May 2021.
- ↑ McKernan, Bethan (2021-05-23). "Civil war, ruin, raging poverty... but Assad is guaranteed to win Syria's fake election". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ↑ Neilan, Catherine (2021-05-26). "Arab states accept sham Syria elections as Assad returns to fold". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ↑ "يؤكد حزب الاتحاد على موقفه الثابت بعدم المشاركة بأي من العمليات الانتخابية والاستفتاءات في ظل نظام الأسد". Democratic Arab Socialist Union. 2021-05-09. Retrieved 2021-05-26.