On April 13 Syria will hold parliamentary election, but who is going to vote?
While the civil war continues with no possible solution ahead, the Syrian government has scheduled parliamentary election for April 13. I found it pretty surreal. Citizens are asked to choose 250 members of the People’s Council from 15 multi-member constituencies but nearly half of those are not under the government control.
As we well know Raqqa is occupied by the Islamic State which recently partly lost control of Deir ez-Zor. Homs is completely destroyed, and in Aleppo the ongoing fight makes it almost impossible to vote. Latakia is also partly controlled by the Syrian Army. The Kurds who established an autonomous region, known as Rojava, will not hold the elections.
