"Not every Syrian will be going to a voting booth, nor will there be political parties or campaign posters. Instead, votes will be cast by various committees, which is why the country's first election after dictatorship is being described as "indirect." "The reality in Syria does not permit the holding of traditional elections, given the presence of millions of internally and externally displaced persons, the absence of official documents, the fragility of the legal structure,""
"Because of this, the resulting process to elect a new People's Assembly will take place in several stages. In June this year, an 11-member Supreme Committee for the People's Assembly Elections was directly appointed by Syria's transitional government to supervise the election. In turn, the Supreme Committee has appointed what are known as election sub-committees in Syria's 62 electoral districts. The districts are meant to be weighted by population so some of them have more than one seat."
Syria will hold indirect parliamentary elections at the end of the month following four decades of dictatorship and a decade of civil war. Millions of Syrians are internally or externally displaced, many lack official documents, and the legal framework is fragile. The transitional government appointed an 11-member Supreme Committee to oversee the vote and established sub-committees in 62 electoral districts. District sub-committees will appoint 30–50 electors per seat to form electoral colleges that will choose members of the People's Assembly. The process excludes mass public voting, omits political parties and campaign posters, and has faced criticism for speed and limited representativeness.
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