President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday March 03,2020 said
parliamentary elections would be held in war-torn Syria on April 13
The
polls, to be held across government-controlled parts of Syria, are the
third such elections in the country since the start of its nine-year
civil war.
Assad's forces today hold more than 70 percent of Syrian soil
following victories against rebels and jihadists with Russian backing
since 2015
During the last polls in 2016, Syria's ruling Baath party and
its allies won a majority of the chamber's 250 seats.
The United Nations
refused to recognise the results
The Baath party has governed Syria
with an iron fist for the past half-century. But in 2012, Damascus for
the first time allowed candidates from outside the party to run in
legislative elections.
Areas outside government control include the
northwestern region of Idlib, where government forces are waging a
deadly campaign against jihadists and Turkey-backed rebels
Turkey also controls a large swathe of borderland in northeastern Syria,
while US-backed, Kurdish-led fighters are present in the oil-rich east
The Syrian conflict has killed more than 380,000 people and displaced
millions since its start in 2011
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