Overview

• Polling opened at 09:00 local time in 11 of 14 provinces, with some stations extending hours as others moved to the count.
• Transitional Interior Ministry officials reported no violations and said security plans for polling sites were fully implemented.
• Roughly 6,000 electoral-college members are selecting 140 of 210 seats, with the remaining 70 to be appointed by interim president Ahmed ash-Sharaa.
• Voting was postponed in As-Suwayda as well as the northeast’s Raqqa and Hasakah, and officials say final results are expected early next week.
• The race features 1,578 registered candidates, 14% of them women, while former-regime supporters are barred and the Kurdish administration denounces the process as premature and unrepresentative.