Voting begins in Syria’s first post-Assad parliamentary election without public participation –

Voting began Sunday across most Syrian governorates in what officials call the first parliamentary election under the “new Syria.”

The vote marks the country’s first since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government in December 2024.

While security forces were deployed to maintain calm, polling was limited to certain areas as elections were postponed in Raqqa, al-Hasakah, and Suwayda due to instability.

Crucially, the Syrian public is not directly participating in this election. Instead, representatives are being chosen through an indirect system where local electoral colleges—not voters—select two-thirds of the 210 parliamentary seats, with the rest appointed by Julani of HTS terrorists.

The Cradle Media