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Several Kurdish political parties and groups in Syria have rejected the allocation of only four seats to the Kurdish community in the 210-member Syrian People’s Assembly, arguing that such representation does not reflect the true demographic weight of Kurds in the country.
In a statement issued on Friday by ten Kurdish political parties and movements, the signatories expressed their opposition to what they described as “policies of marginalization and political exclusion,” according to the Kurdish Hawar News Agency.
The Kurdish groups called for increasing the number of seats reserved for Kurds to no fewer than 40, stating that this figure would better correspond to their population size and political presence in Syria.
According to the parliamentary election results, 126 members — including four Kurds — were elected out of a total of 140 elected seats. The election of 14 additional members was postponed in constituencies located in the provinces of Al-Hasakah and As-Suwayda, as well as in the Ain al-Arab area of Aleppo province. The president also holds the authority to appoint 70 members, equivalent to one-third of the parliament’s total seats.
