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\ngeneral secretariat, was selected to represent Hasakah district, while Ridwan
\nSido was chosen for Qamishli and Farhan Marai for the Derik area. \u201cThe KNC will participate in the parliamentary elections by
\nnominating candidates for the seats allocated to Kurds in Hasakah province.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\nAnother source familiar with the matter informed Shafaq News
\nthat the KNC is expected to hold talks with the Democratic Union Party (PYD) to
\ncoordinate the nomination process between the two sides.<\/p>\n
Kurdish groups are expected to receive four seats in the
\nelections out of a total of nine allocated to Hasakah province, with two seats
\nexpected to go to the KNC and two to the PYD.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Mohammad Wali, a member of the Higher Committee for
\nSyria\u2019s People\u2019s Assembly elections, told Shafaq News that Hasakah province has
\nnine allocated seats after a representative from Ras Al-Ain had already been
\nelected. He said the seats are distributed as four for Qamishli
\ndistrict, three for Hasakah district, and two for Al-Malikiyah district.<\/p>\n
Wali explained that the elections will be conducted through
\nan indirect voting system based on Decree No. 143 of 2025, under which
\nsubcommittees form electoral bodies that later carry out the voting process.<\/p>\n
Under the constitutional declaration for Syria\u2019s
\ntransitional period signed by Syrian transitional President Ahmad Al-Sharaa,
\nthe president appoints one-third of the 210-member parliament, while the
\nremaining two-thirds are elected through regional electoral bodies.<\/p>\n
According to Syria\u2019s election committee, the mechanism is
\nintended to ensure broader social representation and political and professional
\nbalance.<\/p>\n
Parliamentary elections were held across Syria on October 5,
\n2025, with 126 representatives elected, but voting in Kurdish-majority areas
\nand Sweida province was postponed due to political and security conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-14T18:26:57+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Damascus The Kurdish National Council (KNC) on Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[152,39518,39517,277,95],"class_list":{"0":"post-114375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-knc","10":"tag-kurdish-national-council-selects-candidates-for-syrian-parliament-elections","11":"tag-kurds","12":"tag-syria"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116575391213816397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}