When Mehdi Dakhlallah wrote an article earlier in the year calling for the abolition of a clause in the Syrian constitution granting preferential treatment to the ruling Baath party, many thought he would lose his job as editor of Al-Baath newspaper.
After all, Syrian Vice-President Abdel-Halim Khaddam responded that the constitutional clause, Article 8, was "holy" and could not be touched.
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