AMMAN (Reuters) - The opposition Syrian National Coalition will meet in Istanbul next week to elect a provisional prime minister to run a political transition if President Bashar al-Assad falls, coalition members said on Thursday.
The opposition wants to create a provisional government to administer rebel-held areas in Syria and to show it can fill a power vacuum left by collapsing state institutions, putting structures in place to curb chaos in a post-Assad era.
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