The cabinet includes 23 ministers of various backgrounds in the middle of world calls to greater inclusiveness.
Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa has announced a transitional government, appointing 23 ministers in a new extended and diversified cabinet.
The cabinet announced on Saturday included Yarub Badr, a Allawite who was appointed Minister of Transport, while Amgad Badr, who belongs to the Druze community, will lead the Ministry of Agriculture.
“The formation of a new government today is a declaration of our joint desire to build a new state,” said Al-Sharaa in a speech marking government formation.
The government will have no Prime Minister, Al-Sharaa should lead the executive power.
The Sardar Sardar of Al Jazeera, reporting from Beirut, Lebanon, said that Al-Sharaa “was trying to show the Syrians and the world that the new government reflects the diversity of Syria”.
“People had criticized the president he had previously appointed all his close friends to all ministerial posts [in the caretaker cabinet]”, He added.
The new leaders of Syria were under pressure from the West and the Arab countries to form a more inclusive government of the various ethnic and religious communities of the country.
This pressure increased following the murders of hundreds of Alawite civilians – the minority sect from which the former president of former president Bashar al -Assad is hailed – in violence along the west coast of Syria this month.
The figure of opposition veteran Hind Kabawat, member of the Syrian Christian minority and longtime adversary of Al-Assad, was appointed Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, the first woman to be appointed by Al-Sharaa.
Mohammed Yosr Bernieh was appointed Minister of Finance, while Murhaf Abu Qasra and Asaad Al-Shibani, who served as ministers of defense and foreign affairs respectively in the previous goalkeeper, have also been kept.
The goalkeeper’s cabinet under Al-Sharaa ruled Syria since Al-Assad was overthrown in December by a rebellious Lightning offensive. In January, Al-Sharaa was appointed acting president, and he undertook to form an inclusive transitional government which would strengthen Syria’s public institutions and lead the country to elections, which, according to him, could take up to five years.
Al-Sharaa said that he had created a ministry for emergency situations and disasters for the first time, with the chief of white helmets, the Syrian rescuers who worked in areas held by the rebels, Raed al-Saleh, appointed to direct him.
Earlier this month, Syria published a constitutional declaration, designed to serve the basis of the temporary period led by Al-Sharaa.
