How can Syria’s first elections be revealed since the overthrow of Assad

Syria is scheduled to make parliamentary elections on Sunday for the first time since the fall of the prominent country leader, the Assad, who was removed in a rebel attack in December.

According to the 50 -year -old Assad’s family base, Syria held regular elections that all Syrian citizens can vote. But in practice, Assad’s BAATH party has always dominated Parliament, and the voices considered a widely trick election.

External election analysts said that the only competitive part of the operation came before the election day – with the internal statute of the Baath party, when the party members were wandering in positions on the list.

However, the elections to be held on Sunday will not be a complete democratic process as well. Instead, most assembly seats for people will be voted by electoral colleges in each region, while a third of the seats will be appointed directly by temporary President Ahmed Al -Sharra.

Although popular vote, the election results are likely to be taken as a measure of the severity of the interim authorities over totalitarianism, especially women and minorities.

Here are details of how the elections do and what you see.

How does the system work

The People’s Association includes 210 seats, two -thirds of which will be elected and a third. Voting on the seats elected by the electoral colleges in the regions throughout the country, with the number of seats for each region distributed by the population.

In theory, a total of 7,000 members of the electoral college must in 60 provinces – chosen from a group of applicants in each region by the committees designated for this purpose – must vote for 140 seats.

However, the elections in the province of Sweida and in the northeast regions that are controlled by the Syrian democratic forces led by Kurdish have been postponed indefinitely due to tensions between local authorities in those areas and the central government in Damascus, which means that these seats will remain empty.

In practice, about 6000 members of the Electoral College will vote in 50 provinces of about 120 seats.

The largest area contains the city of Aleppo, where 700 members will vote in the electoral college to fill 14 seats, followed by the city of Damascus, where 500 members vote for 10 seats.

All candidates come from the membership of electoral colleges.

After Assad’s prolongation, the interim authorities resolved all the current political parties, most of which were closely dependent on the Assad government, and have not yet established a system of new parties to registration, so all the candidates are managed as individuals.

Why not vote my popularity

The interim authorities said that it would be impossible to create an accurate record for the voters and make a popular vote at this stage, given that millions of Syrians were subjected to attempting internally or externally by the 14 -year civil war, and many have lost personal documents.

This parliament will have a period of 30 months, during which the government is supposed to prepare the land to vote in the upcoming elections.

The lack of popular vote has criticized as a non -democratic, but some analysts say the reasons for the government are legitimate.

“We do not know even the number of Syrians in Syria today” because of the large number of displaced people.

“It will be really difficult to draw the electoral lists today in Syria,” or arranging the logistical services for Syrians in the diaspora to vote in their residence countries.

The most important issue is the lack of clear criteria according to the selection of voters.

“Especially when it comes to choosing sub -committees and electoral colleges, there is no supervision, and the whole process is a kind of weakness for manipulation,” he said.

There were widespread objections after the electoral authorities removed the names of the primary lists that were published, and they did not provide detailed information about the reason for removing these names.

Questions about inclusiveness

There is no specific share of the representation of women and religious or ethnic minorities in Parliament.

Women were asked to make up 20 percent of the members of the electoral college, but this did not guarantee that they would constitute a similar percentage of candidates or the elected.

The government agency run by SANA, a martyr of the Chairman of the National Elections Committee, Muhammad Taha Al -Ahed, said that women make up 14 percent of the 1578 candidates who reached the final lists. In some areas, women make up 30 or 40 percent of all candidates, while in other regions, there are no filters.

Meanwhile, the exclusion of the Swedish district of my role and the Kurdish -controlled areas in the northeast, as well as the lack of specific shares for minorities raised questions about the representation of societies that are not part of the Sunni Arab majority.

This issue is especially sensitive after sectarian violence has spread in recent months in which hundreds of civilians have been killed by senior minorities and Druze, and many of them by government fighters.

Feve indicated that the electoral areas have been drawn in a way to create a longer minority.

“What the government could do if it wanted to reduce the number of minorities, it was possible to integrate these areas or these areas with the majority of the Sunni Muslim areas,” he said. “They could have essentially drowned minorities, which they did not do.”

The officials also referred to a third of the parliament, which was appointed directly by the Shara as a mechanism “to ensure improvement in the comprehensiveness of the legislative body.” The idea is that if a few women or minorities are elected by the electoral colleges, the president will include a higher percentage of his choices.

Hyde said that the lack of the representation of Suwaida and the northeast is still a problem, even if the Shara appointed legislators from those areas.

“The bottom line is that regardless of the number of people who will be appointed from these areas, the conflict between the real authorities and Damascus regarding their participation in the political process will remain a major issue,” he said.