Yassir Al Atrash, Baladi News
Hafez Al-Assad's regime has always used the Syrian parliament membership as a prize for those who proved loyalty and achieved social or cultural accomplishments that /reaped the benefit he desired/ were of benefit for him, including artists, athletes and public figures like Sabah Fakhri, Sabah Obaid, Ayman Zidan, Muhsen Ghazi and others .And Bassar Al-Assad is following his father's steps by honoring such people.
It seems that the most famous person to get this honor in the current parliamentary session, is the so-called "International" director Najdat Ismaeil Anzor who ran for the next elections due to be held in the 13th of April 2016 as a representative for Aleppo. Anzor is leading a number of artists who are also running for the parliament, but it's noteworthy that all of them are high-handed thugs who sworn ultimate loyalty to their master "The Leader Bashar Al-Assad", some of them even retired from being artists for the sake of fighting with sectarian militias to suppress the Syrians.
Elected as killers
More than 11300 candidates are running to be honored by the membership of Assad's parliament in this session that's considered a political maneuver by the regime to lobby in Genève conference.
Zouheir Ramadan and Aref Al-Taweel stood out Among the candidates for this session, along with Tawfeek Iskendir who once appeared holding a rifle defending Bashar Al Assad and his regime. Anzor is considered the leader of this group of artists running for the parliamentary session, especially that it coincides with the showing of his last movie "Fania wa tadabadbed" (Mortal and Dispersing), with reference to ISIS.
"Muhammed Mansour", the journalist and critic, believes that Assad's regime is recruiting artists as mouthpieces without exerting any efforts doing this due to their low cultural level and political ignorance, along with their ultimate greed which made money the strongest factor controlling their social and artistic life.
Fake Fame
A lot of people were surprised by the contradicting attitudes of some actors who used to be very bald in their series and plays, but they supported the criminals and accepted to be ruled by the military shoes on both realistic and metaphorical levels. However, it was not a surprise to those who used to know them well before the war.
The regime continued to use its artists whenever needed, so he pushed some of them to appear on media as political analysts explaining the "Universal Conspiracy" to the public at the beginning of the revolution, thinking that being popular will convince the people to stop demonstrating. What the regime and his mouthpieces didn't know is that the people at that time were already able of distinguishing between what's real and what's not. Therefore, Syrians were not affected by their performance and didn't step aside.
"The continuous attempts of artists to enter the so-called parliament is not new and many of them did succeed in achieving this either unopposed or appointed in a pre-chosen lists, but people didn’t take them seriously as they did with all the other candidates", according to the author Muhammed Mansour.
Al-Mansour ends his article by saying that " the most wanted kind of people nowadays are those like Anzor (who doesn't even hold a secondary certificate), people who master the art of showing-off and political flattering.
