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Many Syrians are unaware of the first parliamentary election since Assad’s fall
Two-thirds of the 210 parliamentary seats were chosen by electoral colleges, while interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa appointed one-third amid displacement and security challenges.
- Syria held its first Parliamentary Elections since Bashar al-Assad's fall, with voting occurring at designated centers across most provinces, according to state media reports.
- 1,578 candidates are competing for 210 seats, with 14% of the candidates being women, as reported by the Syrian Arab News Agency.
- Elections are not taking place in Kurdish-controlled areas and Turkish-occupied regions due to ongoing tensions and security issues, as mentioned by the Jerusalem Post.
- The People’s Assembly consists of 210 seats, with one-third appointed directly by interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.
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Syria has taken another step this Sunday in a transition full of challenges by holding the first parliamentary elections since the fall of President Bashar al Assad, who fled the country in December 2024 ending an autocratic dynasty of half a century. The elections aim to restore the legislative power, although with a particular participatory system in which there is no universal suffrage and in which some territories have been excluded from the…
Syria's president, Ahmed al-Shara, has deposited his vote for the legislative elections in the country's capital, Damascus, this Sunday, in a day he has described as a "historic moment" in the national transition process after decades of dictatorship by the Al-Assad family, amid criticism of the vote for its indirect nature and the boycott of prominent political-military actors in the country.Before voting, the former jihadist leader has walked …
The first parliamentary election after the fall of the Assad dictatorship is bleeding from many wounds, but at least it exists.
For the first time since the fall of the Assad regime, Parliament has been re-elected in Syria - but there is much criticism of the process. How representative is the election? And what significance does it have?
1st time in 5 decades: elections in post-Assad Syria - but Druze and Kurds won't be
After 53 years of "protocol elections" under Assad and the Baath Party, the al-Sharaa regime is holding a vote on a new parliament, but still without direct involvement of the people: 'public representatives' appointed without clear criteria will choose 2/3 of the seats - and the rest will be determined by the president; Druze and Kurdish strongholds will be left without representatives due to security tension
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