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Syria announces Sharaa's parliamentary appointees, SDF Kurds sidelined
The Syrian government has announced the list of 70 members appointed to its transitional parliament.
Syria’s government announced the list of 70 members appointed to its transitional parliament on Wednesday. The 210-member chamber will finally convene next week after an eight-month formation process involving several rounds of elections slammed by critics as discriminatory under President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
The presidential appointees include:
- Abdul Hakim Bashar, a leading member of the Kurdish National Council
- Laith Balous, an ethnic Druze from Suwayda who is the son of prominent Druze cleric Wahid al-Balous
- Rozina Lazkani, a popular female TV drama actor
- Gabriel Moushe Gawrieh, an Assyrian-Christian activist
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