Syria has been taking place the first elections since Assad, but not in all provinces

Syria will hold its first parliamentary elections on Sunday since the fall of Bashar al -Assad, amid concerns about inclusiveness and successive delay.

There will be no direct vote for the People’s Association, which will be responsible for legislation during a transitional period.

Instead, the “electoral colleges” will choose representatives of two -thirds of the 210 -seats. The temporary president, Ahmed Al -Sharra, will appoint the rest.

President al -Assad was long been expelled by the Sherrai forces 10 months ago after a 13 -year civil war.

The authorities say they have postponed opinion polls for security reasons in two controlled and third provinces that witnessed a deadly fight between government forces and the Druze militias.

In July, clashes indicate the latest outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria since the overthrow of Assad.

In a speech at the United Nations General Assembly last week – the first by a Syrian president in 60 years – Shara promised to bring justice to every person responsible for bloodshed, as well as those who committed atrocities during the Assad era.

He also pledged that Syria was now “rebuilding itself by establishing a new state, and building institutions and laws that guarantee the rights of everyone without exception.”

Opinion polls are supervised on Sunday by the Supreme Committee for the Syrian People’s Assembly elections, which the president chose 11 members in June.

The number of seats allocated in each of the 60 provinces depends on the census data collected in 2010 – in the year that preceded the country’s slide into a civil war that killed more than 600,000 people and explained another 12 million people.

The postponement of the elections in the three provinces – Al -Raqqa, its senses and Sweden – means that the election colleges in 50 out of 60 provinces will choose representatives of about 120 seats on Sunday.

There will be more than 1500 candidates, who must also be members of the electoral college. Supporters of the “former regime or terrorist organizations” were prevented from membership, as well as advocates of “separation, division, or searching for foreign interference.”

At least 20 % of the members of the electoral college were asked to be women. But there was no minimum level of the legislators, nor for those of ethnic and religious minorities in the country.

The president will choose representatives of 70 seats from outside the electoral colleges.

Last month, 14 groups of Syrian civil societies expressed concern that this means that it will have a direct impact on the formation of Parliament.

“This preparation makes Parliament vulnerable to the balance of power that does not reflect the will of the voters and undermine its intended representative nature, allowing the executive authority to control an institution that must be independent and reflect the popular will.”

They also said that the direct and indirect influence of the president on the Supreme Committee and the Electoral Colleges made the elections “as symbolic at best, free of its democratic purpose of ensuring acting and accountability.”

Shara defended the way the elections are held. He said in a television interview, referring to millions of refugees who are no longer: “As a transitional parade, there is difficulty in holding common elections due to the loss of documents, and half of the population outside Syria, also without documents,” referring to millions of refugees who are no longer.

The Supreme Committee said that it was not possible to hold elections in Raqqa, Sayyah and Sweden because of the “security and political situation”. 20 seats will remain vacant so that opinion polls can be made.

Mostly, they control and be sensitive to the militia coalition led by the Kurdish, the Syrian democratic forces (SDF), which are in a confrontation with the interim government regarding the implementation of the Mars Agreement to integrate all military and civil institutions in the country.

Thuraya Mustafa of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) said that the electoral process and a delay showed that the government has the same mentality “like the previous authoritarian mentality.”

“We see the exclusion and deprivation of the rights of the Syrian people, like the elections. Therefore, the Syrian interim government does not represent the will of the Syrian people.”

The government also carries a little impact on Sweden, as tensions with the population have often been high since sectarian violence there three months ago.

Violence erupted when the Druze militias clashed with Sunni tribes Badwin, prompting the government to send its forces to intervene. More than 1,000 people were killed in the fighting, most of whom are Druze, according to observation groups.

Hussam Nasreddin, a resident of the Jaramana suburb in South Druze, rejected the electoral process as “more like a date.”

“The people should be elected by people and people should represent,” he told Reuters. “Today we don’t know anything. We haven’t seen any lists or actors. We haven’t seen anything.”