Syria recognizes the “disadvantages” in the number of places earned by women in elections

The committee, which organizes the first parliamentary elections in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, admitted “significant shortcomings” after the results showed that only 13% of the contested places were won by the candidates for women and minorities.

Observers said six women and 10 members of religious and ethnic minorities are among the 119 people elected for the newborn meeting on Sunday.

There was no direct people’s vote. Instead, electoral colleges choose representatives for two -thirds of 210 seats. Temporary President Ahmed al -Sharaa appoints the others.

An election committee spokesman said the president’s election could “compensate” the insufficient components of society.

Twenty -one place was not filled as the polls were postponed for security reasons in two Kurdish -controlled provinces to the north, and third to the south, which were observed deadly fighting between the government forces and the militias of Druz.

Sharaa said the election was a “historical moment” during a visit to a polling section and said that parliament would play an “important supervisory role” during its 30-month term.

He promised a democratic and inclusive political transition after his Sunni Islamist group led the offensive of the Lightning, which overthrew the Assad regime last December, ending the 13-year civil war, which killed over 600,000 people and displaced another 12 million.

However, the country has been shaken by several waves of deadly sectarian violence since then, nourishing fear and distrust among minorities.

Sunday polls were monitored by the Supreme Committee on the Syrian National Assembly election, whose 11 members were elected by the President in June.

They, in turn, appointed subcommittees that were charged with the election of up to 7,000 members of 140 election colleges covering 60 areas.

The candidates representing the 50 districts where the vote took place, all had to be members of the College College College. Proponents of the “former regime or terrorist organizations” were banned by membership, as well as the defenders of the “secession, division or search for foreign intervention”.

In the end, women make up 14% of 1500 candidates, according to the Supreme Committee.

However, there were no quotas for women’s legislators, nor for those of many ethnic and religious minorities in the country.

Following the preliminary results of the election on Monday, the higher election commissions spokesman Navar Navar was asked by journalists to comment on the representation of women and Christians.

“Among the most important shortcomings of the election process were the unsatisfactory results for the representation of Syrian women and the fact that Christian representation is limited to two places, a weak representation against the number of Christians in Syria,” he told a press conference.

Election observers told Reuters news agency that two members of the Alawite sect on Assad and several ethnic Kurds also won seats.

The United States estimates that 10% of the 24 million population in Syria is Christian. Sunni Muslims represent 74%, other Muslim sects 13%and Druid 3%.

Najmeh suggested that “the third of the president (from places) could compensate” for some insufficient components of society.

He also insisted that the authorities are “serious to have additional newsletters” in the northern provinces of Cancer and Hasake, which are mainly controlled by the police alliance, led by Kurdish, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

However, he said the polls there would be related to the progress between the government and the SDF regarding the implementation of March an agreement to integrate all leading military and civilian institutions in the country.

The Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), the political umbrella of the SDF -related Northeastern Syria Anetic Autonomous Administration (Aanes), said the elections “do not represent the will of the Syrian people and do not represent all regions and communities in the country.”

On Tuesday, Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Casra said he had agreed to a complete cessation of fire with SDF leader, Mazlum Abdi, after the last clashes in two neighborhoods of the Kurdish majority of the northern city of Aleppo.

Aanes accused the army of attacked the residents of Ashrafie and Sheikh Maxud on Monday while the Ministry of Interior said collisions erupted after the SDF blamed the army.

The government also has a little influence in the southern province of Soveida, where the tensions with the main population of Druza’s Druza remain high after sectarian violence there three months ago.

Violence exploded when Druze Militias encountered the Sunni Bedouin tribes, which made the government send their strength to intervene. More than 1,000 people have been killed in the fighting, most of whom are Druzi, according to observation groups.

A clergyman of Druza in Suwis, Fadi Badria, told the United Kingdom -based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, that elections represent only the authority of what he calls the “terrorist” temporary government and that they “will not be recognized by the province.”