Syria holds first elections since Assad, but not in all provinces

Syria will make its first parliamentary elections on Sunday since the fall of Bashar al -Assad with concerns about inclusiveness and consecutive delays.

There will be no direct vote for the People’s Assembly to be responsible for the legislation during the transition period.

Instead, “election colleges” will choose representatives for two -thirds of the 210 chair. The temporary president Ahmed Al-Sharaa will appoint the rest.

Former President Assad for a long time, 10 months ago after a 13 -year civil war was dismissed by Sharaa’s forces.

Authorities, two Kurdish controlled provinces and third, government forces and Draze militias, the third, the third, the third, said they postponed the questionnaires for security reasons.

In July, the clashes pointed out the last epidemic of sectarian violence in Syria since the overthrow of Assad.

In a speech held at the UN General Assembly last week – by a Syrian President in 60 years – Sharaa promised to bring justice to everyone responsible for bloodshed and those who persecute under Assad.

He also committed that Syria was “rebuilding itself” by establishing a new state by establishing a new state and building institutions and laws that guaranteed its rights without exception.

Sunday polls are audited by the High Committee for the Syrian People’s Assembly elections elected by the President in June.

The number of seats allocated in each of the 60 districts is based on the census data collected in 2010 – the country goes down to a civil war that kills more than 600,000 people and displays 12 million more.

Postponing the elections in three provinces – Raqqa, Hassakh and Suweida – only 50 of 60 regions will choose representative for about 120 seats on Sunday.

Election College will be a member of more than 1,500 candidates. “Former regime or terrorist organizations” supporters, “separation, division or search for foreign intervention” defenders were banned from membership.

At least 20% of the election college members had to be women. However, there was no minimum quota for women deputies or for those of many ethnic and religious minorities of the country.

The president will elect 70 seat representatives from outside the election colleges.

Last month, 14 Syrian civil society groups expressed his concern that it would have a direct impact on parliament’s composition.

A joint statement, “This installation, the parliamentary will not reflect the will of the voters and the intended representative to weaken the quality of power balances, making the executive authority dominated an institution that should be independent and reflective.”

They also said that the direct and indirect impact of the President on the High Committee and Election Colleges said that “lack the purpose of providing symbolic, representation and accountability”.

Sharaa defended the way the elections were held. In a television interview, in a television interview referring to millions of refugees who have not returned, “As a transition period, there is difficulty in making popular elections due to the loss of documents, and half of the population is outside Syria without documents.” He said.

The High Committee said it was not possible to choose in Raqqa, Hassakh and Suweida due to “security and political situation”. 20 seats allocated to them will remain empty until the surveys take place.

Raqqa and Hassakeh are mostly controlled by a Kurdish alliance under the leadership of a Kurdish alliance (SDF), which has taken a stance with the temporary government to implement a March agreement to integrate all military and civilian institutions into the state.

Thouya Mustafa of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) said that the election process and delay show that the government has the same mentality with the previous authoritarian mentality.

“We see that the rights of the Syrian people, such as elections, are excluded and rejected. Therefore, the Syrian temporary government does not represent the will of the Syrian people.”

The government also swings very little in Suweida, where tensions with a population of Duze remained high three months ago since sectarian violence.

When the Duze militias clashed with the Sunni Bedouin tribes, violence exploded, which pushed the government to send its forces to intervene. According to the monitoring groups, most of them were killed in the fight, more than 1000 people were killed.

Hussam Nasreddin, the resident of the Drze Drze Drze suburb of Drze Drze Drze, mainly rejected the election process as “more like an appointment”.

“The people of the people should be elected by people and represent people,” he told Reuters. “We don’t know anything today. We didn’t see any list or representative. We didn’t see anything.”