Seventy lawmakers appointed by interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa completed Syria’s first post-Assad parliament, filling out a 210-seat chamber after 140 members were chosen in elections over the past eight months.
Monday will bring the parliament’s first session and swearing-in, launching a 30-month term focused on drafting new laws and preparing a new elections law, electoral committee head Mohammed Taha al-Ahmad said.
Fifteen women were among Sharaa’s appointees, lifting female representation to 22 seats, while two representatives from Sweida were included even though the Druze-majority province has not yet held a vote.
The chamber restores a legislature absent since the December 2024 insurgent offensive that toppled the Assad family’s five-decade rule, as Syria tries to rebuild after a war that killed about 500,000 people.