Transitional phase
Syria is planning the first parliamentary election since Assad-Sturz in September
Syria has been in transition since the fall of Bashar al-Assads. The planned implementation of a parliamentary election should be a further step towards transformation of the country.
The first parliamentary election since the fall of the former long-term power holder Bashar al-Assad is to take place in Syria. The vote is planned for the week from September 15th to 20th, said the head of the electoral authority, Mohammed al-Ahmad, according to the state news agency Sana. The exact date will depend on the course of the preparations.
President Ahmed al-Sharaa received a draft for a new electoral law. This provides for an increase in seats from 150 to 210, with a third of the MPs are to be appointed by the President. Most recently, the country’s parliament had only 150 seats with around 23 million inhabitants.
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According to al-Ahmads, the temporary election system is now to be confirmed with a decree by the president. The election bodies should then be formed within three weeks of the signing, the candidates can then imagine and hold debates.
According to the constitutional declaration signed by President Al-Schaharaa in March, the election period of the transition parliamentary is initially to be three years, it can then be re-elected. The transition parliament should be responsible for legislation in Syria until a constant constitution comes into force. On their basis, elections should then be held again.
The Islamist government wants to allow foreign observers to monitor the election committees. Areas outside of government control, such as the regions held by Kurds, and the Drusian province of Suweida, which were recently shaken by unrest, are also said to continue to receive seats on the basis of their population.
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The new assembly is intended to lay the foundation for a more comprehensive democratic process, which critics, according to critics, are currently in charge of adequate minorities.
Al-Sharaa was the head of the Islamist group Haiat Tahrir al-Scham (HTS), which cited the rebel alliance, the long-term power holder Assad ultimately plunged after years of civil war at the beginning of December last year. According to a preliminary constitution signed in March in March, Syria’s political system is to be reformed within a transition phase that is scheduled for five years.
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