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Syria Selects Members Of First Post-Assad Parliament In Contested Process

Syria will select members for its first parliament since Islamist rebels overthrew Bashar al-Assad (Credit: AFP)

Syria will select members of its first post-Assad parliament on Sunday in a process criticised as undemocratic, with a third of the members appointed by interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.

The assembly's formation is set to consolidate the power of Sharaa, whose Islamist forces led a coalition that toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December after more than 13 years of civil war and five decades of one-family rule.

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