The Concept of the State
A state is a term used to describe a political entity consisting of four basic elements: a people, a territory, a government, and sovereignty.
People: Individuals who form a civil society, follow common laws, and pledge allegiance to the state.
Territory: A geographical area governed and protected by the state with recognized borders.
Government: Institutions that manage the state’s affairs, issue decrees and decisions, ensure the security of its citizens, and oversee the implementation of the law.
Sovereignty: Making independent decisions without internal dictation or external interference, and outlining its foreign relations policy to serve its national interests within its own balance and weighing logic.
The Syrian Future Movement believes that the Assad regime (father and son) has failed and caused failure in building and managing a proper “state” entity by monopolizing and tightly controlling all four powers: legislative, judicial, executive, and media for decades. Then through the privileges granted to foreigners within the homeland, and then by using the people, with all their spectra and sects, as pawns in specific agendas.
The Syrian Future Movement affirms the place of the “state” in ensuring the obligatory rights for its people, providing them with basic freedoms, enhancing real security, sustainable stability, and comprehensive development.
The Syrian Future Movement sees that a “state”, with its effective strong institutions and the realization of public interests, should have a constitution above all, laws that apply to everyone, human rights are protected, the practice of democracy is guaranteed and available, and political and social participation is everyone’s right.
The Syrian Future Movement believes that building a “state” means preserving its sovereignty, safeguarding its unity and dignity, defending its land, protecting its people, maintaining civil peace and security, confronting internal and external challenges with responsibility and accountability, and fostering fruitful cooperation with countries whose interests intersect with the Syrian people’s interests.
The Syrian Future Movement believes that the core of the “state” is respecting the sovereignty of the people, with a continuous fight against corruption and decay, forms of oppression, and factors of tyranny, aiming to achieve the sovereignty of a just and legal state.
The Syrian Future Movement rejects the demolition of the state’s structure through attempts at disassembly or division, as well as refusing to cede any part of its land, compromising its sovereignty, or becoming wholly or partially subordinate to any external powers or entities.
The Syrian Future Movement believes that the path to establishing a “state” begins by involving all revolutionary and national forces, with their components and entities, in making decisions about its present and future.
The Syrian Future Movement is committed to reviving the concept of the “state” by conducting an in-depth comprehensive dialogue that recalls past milestones, lays the foundation stone of the present, and outlines strategies for future action to establish a national project. This project will be the nucleus of a political agreement that ends the armed conflict and initiates the reconstruction process for both human and infrastructure.
The Syrian Future Movement believes that there is no alternative but to save what remains of the state’s landmarks! Otherwise, the results would be catastrophic for the nation, its citizens, and on all fronts.
The Syrian Future Movement considers that the true victory of the Syrian revolution and its essence lies in the Syrians’ ability to recover quickly to build a strong, free, independent, united, and unifying “state”.
