Naser al-Hariri

Naser al-Hariri (Arabic: نصر الحريري) is a former member of the People's Council of Syria from Daraa. Along with fellow parliamentarian Khalil al-Rifaei, also from Daraa, al-Hariri resigned from his seat in protest at the "continued killings of protesters during the 2011 protests in Syria".^[1]

Naser al-Hariri
نصر الحريري
al-Hariri in 2018
President of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces
In office 12 July 2020 – 12 July 2021
Prime Minister	Abdurrahman Mustafa
Preceded by	Anas al-Abdah
Succeeded by	Salem al-Meslet
Member of the People's Council of Syria
President	Bashar al-Assad
Prime Minister	Muhammad Naji al-Otari
Personal details
Born	(1977-08-23) 23 August 1977 (age 47) Daraa, Syria
Nationality	Syria
Political party	Independent Revolutionary Movement

Political career

On 4 July 2013, Naser al-Hariri joined the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as a representative from the Hauran region of southern Syria.^[2] By 2015, he became the Secretary-General in the coalition based in Istanbul, Turkey.^[3]

In January 2017, he was one of the members of the Syrian opposition delegation that attended the peace talks in Astana.^[4] In February 2017 he was appointed as the head of opposition delegation for the Geneva IV conference on Syria, scheduled to be held on 20 February.^[5]

On 12 July 2020 he was elected as President of the National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces of Syria, replacing Anas al-Abdah.^[6] He was succeeded by Salem al-Meslet on 15 July 2021.^[7]