A voting official registers a woman to vote at a polling station in the Nubl neighbourhood of Aleppo on July 19, 2020, during the parliamentary elections. (PHOTO / AFP)

DAMASCUS - The results of the Syrian parliamentary elections were released on Tuesday, showing a 33.17 percent participation rate in the voting process, according to the state news agency SANA.

Chairman of the Higher Judicial Committee, Samer Zamreeq, recited in a press conference the names of the winning candidates to the parliament, saying that the participation rate in the election is 33.17% as opposed to 57.56% in the previous elections four years ago.

The Syrian opposition in exile slammed the parliamentary elections and the Kurdish militia in northeastern Syria didn't observe the elections and said it has nothing to do with it

The voting took place on Sunday and the vote counting was delayed on Monday due to reruns in some polling stations in northern and eastern Syria as a result of some issues in the voting process.

As expected, the ruling al-Baath party won the majority of the seats in the parliamentary elections.

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Started in the early morning on Sunday, a total of 7,277 polling stations opened across the government-controlled areas for the one-day elections as voters have the chance to vote on 1,656 candidates for the 250-seat parliament.

The new thing this year is the number of young candidates that have not been noticed in the previous elections.

This year, the government also allocated polling stations for Syrians who are originally from rebel-held areas and other places out of the government control but reside in government-controlled areas.

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It is worth noting that the Syrian government is now in control of around 70 percent of the Syrian territory with ultra-radical rebels in control of Idlib in northwestern Syria and the US-backed Kurdish militia of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) controlling areas in northeastern Syria.

The Syrian opposition in exile slammed the parliamentary elections and the Kurdish militia in northeastern Syria didn't observe the elections and said it has nothing to do with it.