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| Riad Hijab |
Authoritative Tweep @THE_47th reports that Syria's Prime
Minister Riad Farid Hijab has defected to Jordan.
President Bashar al-Assad named Hijab prime
minister in early June, a month after parliamentary elections in
Syria, which were boycotted by the opposition.
BBC
News published his biography highlights on June 6:
- Born in 1966 in Deir al-Zor, eastern Syria
- Married, with four children
- Holds a PhD in agriculture
- Joined the local branch of the Ba'ath Party command in 1998
- Named governor of the southern province of Quneitra in 2008
- Transferred to head the Latakia governorate around the time protests were first reported - credited in state media with negotiating an end to a sit-in
- Appointed minister of agriculture on 14 April 2011.
