DAMASCUS, July 20 (NNN-SANA) – The parliamentary elections in Syria kicked off yesterday, the third elections during the more than nine-year-long war, amid the participation of President Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma.
A total of 7,277 polling stations opened across the government-controlled areas on Sunday (yesterday), as voters are having the chance to vote for 1,656 candidates for the 250-seat parliament.
Both the president and his wife were seen wearing masks and casting their ballots at a polling centre, in the Ministry of Presidential Affairs.
The Syrian government now controls around 70 percent of the Syrian territory, while ultra-radical rebels control the Idlib Province, in northwestern Syria, and the U.S.-backed Kurdish militia of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), control areas in northeastern Syria.– NNN-SANA
