Media sources close to the Assad regime estimated that the Baath Party won more than two-thirds of the seats in Assad’s parliament after the announcement of the election results on Saturday, in which the voting rate reached 38.16%, according to the High Elections Commission.
For his part, the industrialist who supports the Assad regime, Fares Shehabi, said that all members of the Aleppo Chamber of Industry refused to run in the election, despite his insistence.
He stated that the reason for this is due to what happened in the elections of the previous session and their lack of confidence in the transparency of the electoral process, and stressed that what happened this time is not much different in terms of the selection of members and corruption, knowing that Fares Shihabi failed to win previously in the membership of the Council and provoked public conflicts.
The elections witnessed the return of well-known faces such as Mohamed Hamsho, the loss of other faces such as Mohamed Qabnand, a member of the former applause council, and the absence of names known for their influence, such as former MP Fouad Aladani and former MP Hossam Qaterji.
Loyalist sources pointed out that with the frequent occurrence of cases of fraud, a number of candidates intend to file a complaint and objections, and Omar Rahmoun said that there is anger over the fraud of the election results in Hama. He pointed out that the Hawaya bloc has transferred 25 thousand identities and entered at once to more than one center and in more than one region.
Despite many cases of fraud and manipulation, the Assad regime admitted very limited cases, such as the re-election at the Sports Union Center in Hama, as well as the re-election in the entire Shajara district in Daraa Governorate. The Assad regime said that the heads of the committees committed irregularities in an electoral center in the town of Jdeidet al-Wadi in Damascus countryside and three centers in al-Rastan in Homs countryside in central Syria.
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