GENEVA (Sputnik) – Appointing three deputies for Syria’s President Bashar Assad is provided for by the country's constitution and might be an option to put an end to the political crisis, a source in one of the Syrian opposition groups told Sputnik.
"At the moment, when it comes to discussing the transitional governing body, a problem arouses: under which constitution should it be done? Under the new one, or the current one? Freezing the current constitution would mean a coup in fact, and would never be accepted by the government. But the current constitution envisages one single way out of this crisis — appointing deputies for the president and waiving his powers to them," the source stated.
There has already been such a precedent in Syria in the past, he noted.
