The government of Syria will resign on Tuesday, RIA Novosti cites AFP as saying.
The source says that the new Cabinet will be formed within 24 hours.
Syrian Vice-President Farouk al-Sharaa said that President Bashar al-Assad will announce “important decisions” made after pressure by protesters.
The Syrian government said that it adopted a plan of extreme political reformation on Thursday, a week after the protests at Deraa, near the Jordan border. The plan includes introduction of a multi-party system, judicial reform, toughening measures against corruption.
The Syrian leader said that he will lift the state of emergency, which has been in power since 1963, when the Baas Party came to power. Syrian News said that practical steps have already been made. Damascus and other provinces of Syria have ongoing protests, RIA Novosti reports.
Thousands of protesters are heading to the center of Damascus at the moment. They carry national flags and portraits of Bashar al-Assad. It is the first mass action of support in the country since mass unrest in Syria 10 days ago.
The events in Deraa were augmented by mass unrest that spread to other parts of the country. The protest was inspired by the arrest of a group of school students who had been writing anti-government slogans on walls and fences. People demanded their release. Dozens of people died in clashes with the police in a week.
