🔶 The final composition of Syria’s parliament has been announced; women’s presence remained limited More than a year and a half after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s former dictator, the final composition of the country’s new parliament has finally been revealed. Mohammad Taha Ahmed, head of the Supreme Electoral Committee of the Syrian parliament, announced today, Wednesday, July 1 (Tir 10) in a press conference in Damascus that the country’s parliament will hold its first session next Monday. The names of the 70 representatives appointed by Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of Syria’s interim president, were also published. In the October elections, largely Sunni-conservative forces and tribal leaders appeared as the winners, while the share of women and ethnic and religious minorities remained small.