Syria delays first session of transitional parliament with out rationalization | Information

The transitional parliament goals to draft a brand new elections regulation throughout its 30-month time period.

Syrian authorities have postponed the primary assembly of the brand new transitional parliament, days after asserting the inaugural session had been scheduled for Monday.

“The convening of the first session of the people’s assembly has been postponed to a date to be determined later,” state tv reported on Sunday, citing an electoral official and with out specifying a cause.

Syria’s new authorities dissolved the nation’s rubber-stamp legislature after toppling longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, following nearly 14 years of civil battle which killed about half one million folks.

In March 2025, new President Ahmed al-Sharaa signed a short lived structure that will probably be in drive for a five-year transitional interval.

In October, native committees appointed by the electoral fee, which was in flip appointed by al-Sharaa, started choosing two-thirds of the 210 members of the brand new parliament, with Sharaa to nominate the remaining third.

He appointed 70 members this week.

Druze-majority Suwayda province within the south has nonetheless not designated its members, after sectarian bloodshed there final yr.

Electoral authorities have stated the choice course of could be held there when circumstances are “appropriate”.

The choice course of was held in previously Kurdish-run areas of the north and northeast earlier this yr after authorities within the capital Damascus assumed management there and signed a deal on integrating Kurdish establishments into the state.

The new parliament may have a 30-month time period and work on a brand new elections regulation whereas making ready the bottom for a well-liked vote, in line with the pinnacle of the electoral committee, Mohammed Taha al-Ahmad.