Alwaght- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has announced that the country’s parliamentary election will be held on April 13th, 2016.
The announcement comes hours after Russia and the US issued a joint statement on cessation of hostilities in this country, announcing February 27 as the starting date for the ceasefire.
Syria holds a general election every four years, with the previous vote taking place in 2012.
The total number of the members of the People’s Assembly is 250 which include different sectors of labors, peasants and other spectrums of the Syrian people distributed as the following seats:
Damascus 29,Damascus countryside 19, Aleppo 20, Aleppo countryside 32, Homs 23, Hama 22, Lattakia 17, Idleb 18, Tartous 13, Raqqa 8, Deir Ezzor 14, Hasaka 14, Daraa 10, Sweida 6 and Quneitra 5.
The majority in the parliament is currently held by the government coalition, with opposition Popular Front for Change and Liberation and independent MPs jointly having 82 seats.
