The main Western-backed Syrian opposition group has elected a former political prisoner as its new president.
The >Syrian National Coalition says on its Twitter account that Ahmad al-Jarba received 55 votes of the 114-member council.
The council also elected three vice-presidents including Mohammed Farouk Taifour, a senior official with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The voted took place on Saturday in Istanbul.
The president’s post had been empty since April when former SNC president Mouaz al-Khatib resigned, citing frustration over what he called a lack of international support and constraints imposed on the body itself.
Since then, senior opposition figure George Sabra served as acting president of the SNC.
