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Syria holds first elections since Assad's fall

2025-10-05 11:50:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
Syria holds first elections since Assad's fall
Ahmed al-Sharaa, head of HTS, the organization that took power in Syria

Syria will hold its first parliamentary elections on Sunday since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

In this process, there will be no direct vote for the People's Assembly, which will be responsible for legislation during the transitional period.

So-called "electoral colleges" will elect representatives for two-thirds of the 210 seats. Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa will select the rest.

Former President Assad was ousted from power by Sharaa forces 10 months ago, after 13 years of civil war.

Authorities have said they have postponed the elections for security reasons in two Kurdish-controlled provinces, and another province in which there has been bloody fighting between government forces and Druze militants.

In a speech last week to the United Nations General Assembly - the first by a Syrian president in 60 years - Sharaa promised that there would be justice for every bloody conflict, as well as for those who committed atrocities under the Assad regime.

He has vowed that Syria is "rebuilding itself through a new state, building institutions and laws that guarantee the rights of all, without any exception."

Sunday's elections will be overseen by a high-level 11-member committee, which was selected by the president in June.

The number of seats, which will be allocated to 60 districts, is based on census data from 2010 - a year before the country was engulfed in a civil war that has killed more than 600,000 people and displaced 12 million others.





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