Syria announces parliamentary election results

[Anthea]

DAMASCUS – The Higher Judicial Committee for Elections of Syria on Saturday announced the results of the parliamentary elections, which was held on April 13.

Judge Hisham al-Shaar, head of the committee, announced at a press conference the names of 250 candidates who won seats at the People’s Assembly.

The turnout was estimated at 57.56 percent, as out of 8,834,994 eligible voters, 5,085,444 have voted, said Judge Hisham al-Shaar.

The figure is higher than the voter turnout of 51.26 percent in 2012, the last parliamentarian elections, just months after the adoption of a new constitution in the war-torn country

Syria's parliamentary elections were held on Wednesday, with some 3,500 candidates vying for the 250 parliamentary seats.

Voters cast their ballots at about 7,300 polling stations in government-controlled areas across the country.

In the capital Damascus alone, there are about 1,500 polling centers in addition to 540 polling stations for people from the provinces of Deir al-Zour, al-Raqqa, Idlib, Aleppo, and Daraa, which are largely not controlled by the government.

In February, President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree to hold parliamentary elections on April 13. The Syrian government said the elections were set for the usual time as elections are held every four years.

The opposition announced a boycott of both the current and the previous elections.

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Who won?

Shall we guess?

Realistically there is now only one choice

If Assad lost the country would be in an even worse turmoil than it is not

Facts have to be faced:

There are an ever increasing number of jihadist groups in Syria

In-fighting is taking place between the various groups who are supposedly on the same side

Jihad groups are frequently changing their allegiances

No Assad = total and utter bloodbath as barbaric jihadists fight to gain control of Syria