First Syrian parliament since al-Assad’s ousting begins legislative duties
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xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoBy AFP and The Associated PressPublished On 1 Jul 20261 Jul 2026The first parliament in Syria’s post-Assad era has taken shape with the release of a list of 70 legislators picked by President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
The inauguration of the new parliament on Wednesday shows the country is moving ahead with drafting laws as the nation works on recovering from decades of iron-fist rule under longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted in December 2024 after more than 13 years of civil war, which killed about half a million people. The head of Syria’s electoral committee, Mohammed Taha al-Ahmad, told reporters that the new 210-member legislature will hold its first meeting on Monday, when the new members will be sworn in, and the parliament’s presidential council will be elected. Interim President al-Sharaa directly appoints one third of the 210 seats.
His list of 70 legislators includes 15 women, raising the number of female members in the legislature to 22. Syria held the first phase of its parliamentary elections in October last year while excluding the southern province of Suwayda, a predominantly Druze governorate and where no date has been set yet for a vote due to security concerns. The October vote also excluded northeast Syria, which was under Kurdish control.
A vote in that region was held in May after government forces took control of the area during deadly clashes earlier this year. The new parliament also includes representatives of the Alawite community and two legislators from Suwayda. “Initially, there was a very small portion of the elected members that were from some of the minority groups, such as the Kurdish community,” said Al Jazeera’s Obaida Hitto, reporting from the capital Damascus.
“The appointees by the president remedied that by adding several more Kurdish members from the Hasakah governorate,” Hitto added.
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