Syria recognizes “shortcomings” in the number of seats that women won in the elections

The committee, which organized the first parliamentary elections in Syria since the fall of Bashar al -Assad, approved “large palaces”, after the results showed that only 13 % of the seats that were competed had won by female candidates and minorities.

Observers said that six women and 10 members of religious and ethnic minorities were among 119 people who were elected to the New People’s Association on Sunday.

There was no direct popular vote. Instead, the electoral colleges choose representatives of two -thirds of the seats 210. The interim president, Ahmed Al -Sharra, appoints the rest.

A spokesman for the Electoral Committee said that the president’s options had “compensated” for the components of the representative community.

Twenty -one seats have been occupied because opinion polls were postponed for security reasons in two Kurdish provinces in the north, and the third in the south witnessed a deadly fight between government forces and the Druze militias.

Shara announced that the elections were a “historic moment” during a visit to the polling station and said that Parliament would play an “important role” during its 30 -month period.

He promised to move a democratic and comprehensive politician after his Sunni Islamic group led an attack on the Lightning Rebel team that overthrew the Assad regime last December, where he ended a 13 -year civil war that killed more than 600,000 people and explained another 12 million people.

However, the country has rocked several waves of deadly sectarian violence since then, nourishing fear and lack of confidence between minorities.

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

They, in turn, appointed the sub -committees assigned to select up to 7,000 members from 140 electoral colleges covering 60 provinces.

Candidates who represent the 50 provinces should have all voted as 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.”

In the end, women formed 14 % of the 1500 candidates, according to the High Committee.

However, there were no shares for the two, nor for those from ethnic and religious minorities in the country.

After publishing the results of the initial elections on Monday, the journalists, a spokesman for the Supreme Electoral Committee, asked Nawar Najm, commenting on the representation of women and Christians.

“Among the most important shortcomings in the electoral process was the non -satisfactory results of the representation of Syrian women, and the fact that Christian representation was limited to two seats, a weak representation for the number of Christians in Syria,” he said in a press conference.

Election observers told Reuters news agency that two members of the Assad sect in Assad and many ethnic Kurds won seats.

The United States estimates that 10 % of the 24 million Syrian population is Christian. Sunni Muslims make up 74 %, other Islamic sects 13 %, and 3 % Druze.

His stars suggested that “the third president (for seats) can compensate” for some components of society active in an incomplete representation.

He also insisted that the authorities were “serious in obtaining complementary ballot cards” in the northern provinces in Raqqa and his feelings, which are mostly controlled by a militia coalition led by the Kurdish, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

However, he said that opinion polls will be linked to the progress between the government and the SDF regarding the implementation of the Mars Agreement to integrate all the Kurdish military and civil institutions into the state.

The Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), the political umbrella of the independent administration that followed SDF in northeastern Syria (ANES) said that the elections “do not represent the will of the Syrian people, and not represent all regions and societies in the country.”

On Tuesday, Defense Minister Marouf Abu Tarara said that he agreed to a comprehensive ceasefire with SDF leader Mazlum Abd, after recent clashes in the Kurdish majority Hayyan in the northern city of Aleppo.

Anels accused the army of attacking the residents of Al -Ashrafa and Sheikh Maxud on Monday, while the Ministry of the Interior said that the clashes erupted after the checkpoints in the army that fell SDF.

The government also carries a little influence in the southern province of Sweden, where 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.

Fadi Badria, one of the Durratic clerics in Suwaida, told the Syrian Observatory in the United Kingdom for Human Rights that the elections represented only the authority of what the temporary government called the “terrorist”, and that “they will not be recognized by the boycott.”