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"I will not allow myself to be the candidate of division, I am not
attached to a position, so I announce that I will step down after a new
candidate has been chosen, either by consensus or through new
elections," the Paris-based academic said in a statement.
Ghalioun, who has led the Syrian National Council by consensus rather
than through election since it was founded in October 2011, was
re-elected as the main opposition group's chairperson in a vote held in
Rome on Tuesday.
He said he would remain a member of the SNC, "hand-in-hand with the
young people who struggle, the young people of the revolution of dignity
and freedom, until victory," while urging all opposition groups to
overcome their divisions.
AFP/NOW Lebanon
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