BEIRUT: Syria’s opposition-in-exile National Coalition elected Khaled Khoja as the group’s president Sunday after its current head, Hadi al-Bahra, opted to not run for re-election.
Khoja, the Coalition’s ambassador to Turkey, received 56 votes while Nasr al-Hariri, the group’s secretary-general, received 50, the group said in a statement.
The election came on the third day of its meetings in Istanbul.
Meanwhile, Syrian opposition factions are expected to meet again in Cairo and endorse a “road map” for negotiating with the regime of President Bashar Assad ahead of a round of meetings scheduled for later this month in Moscow, according to a report in Al-Hayat newspaper Sunday.