Hadi al-Bahra (President of the Syrian Opposition Coalition; Constitutional Committee co-chair) — Middle East Eye interview, 8 Dec 2024 (days after Assad's fall): his vision of a Syria of "equal rights and duties" for all citizens, and a transition that preserves state institutions rather than destroying them.

united land and people, where all citizens have equal rights and duties

We don't want to destroy the current state institutions. We want to keep them running.

[Source is English (Middle East Eye interview, 8 December 2024, days after the fall of Bashar al-Assad); tier-2, confirmed verbatim against the fetched page. The first quote is the phrase he used to describe his vision for the new Syria; the second is on the transition.] Declared positions of Hadi al-Bahra — President of the Syrian Opposition Coalition (the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces / SOC) and co-chair of the UN-facilitated Constitutional Committee; a veteran of the political (rather than armed) opposition to Assad. Speaking just after Assad's fall, he set out a vision of a Syria that is a "united land and people, where all citizens have equal rights and duties" — PLURALIST, EQUAL CITIZENSHIP rather than sectarian or one-party rule — and a PRAGMATIC, INSTITUTION-PRESERVING transition: "We don't want to destroy the current state institutions. We want to keep them running," explicitly avoiding an Iraq-style collapse of the state. In the same interview he outlined an ~18-month transition (including ~6 months to draft a new constitution, then elections in which "the people choose their leader"), early-recovery and reconstruction to reduce dependence on humanitarian aid, and an expanded, inclusive opposition body to form a transitional government. This is the SYRIAN MODERATE, DEMOCRATIC-PLURALIST, TECHNOCRATIC-TRANSITION pole — the political opposition's orderly, institutionalist vision, distinct from both the fallen Assad regime and the armed/Islamist factions (e.g. the HTS-led caretaker authority), and a complement to the civil/human-rights current (Razan Zaitouneh, Mazen Darwish). [Axes: democracy (pluralism; equal citizenship; constitution-then-elections; orderly transition), governance / state-capacity (preserving institutions; reconstruction; avoiding state collapse), religion-state / sectarianism (equal citizenship over sectarian or one-party rule), regime-stance (anti-Assad opposition).]