Today, Sunday, the first elections for the People’s Assembly were launched after the fall of the Bashar al -Assad regime, as the polling process will take place with the participation of the electorate formed in various Syrian governorates.
The capital, Damascus, and a number of Syrian cities, witnessed the deployment of units of the Internal Security Forces in the vicinity of the electoral centers to ensure the progress of the electoral process smoothly and safely.
The polling process will be in the centers of the electoral districts specified in most of the governorates by the Supreme Committee for the People’s Assembly elections, provided that a later date for the polling will be set in some areas of the provinces of Raqqa and Al -Hasaka (Maaddan, Ras Al Ain and Tal Abyad) while the seats of the rest of the departments will remain vacant in the two governorates, in addition to the departments of all the province of As -Suwayda until the appropriate conditions are available.
The polling process will be conducted in the centers specified within the electoral districts in most of the governorates, according to what the Supreme Committee of the People’s Assembly elections announced.
The Syrian News Agency, “SANA”, quoted a spokesman for the Supreme Committee of the People’s Assembly elections, as saying that the vote was launched today at nine in the morning by members of the approved voted bodies, who will start arriving at the electoral centers, accompanying their identification cards.
He explained that the voters receive their electoral cards before heading to the head of the sub -committee to receive the officially sealed paper, and then enter the secret polling room to choose their candidates, to deposit their papers in the polling box publicly.
The polling process ends at exactly twelve o’clock in the afternoon in principle, provided that the vote will be extended until a maximum of four in the afternoon in the event that all members of the voted body cannot be made with their votes within the specified time.
After the polling ends, the fund is open publicly to the media, to start the votes to sort, as the initial results are announced directly through the media.
After the polling process is over, the polling fund is opened openly in the presence of the media, to start the votes sorting, and the initial results are announced immediately through the media.
The number of members of the elite bodies is more than six thousand and the number of candidates is 1568 candidates competing for 140 seats.