Voter turnout in legislative elections in Syria stands at 51.26 percent, an official said on Tuesday, adding that 30 women had been elected to the 250-seat parliament. Announcing the results of the May 7 vote that was boycotted by opposition groups, Khalaf al-Azzawi, head of the electoral commission, said of 10,118,519 Syrians eligible to vote, a little over half had cast ballots.
Syrian’s parliamentary election was the first “multi-party” election in five decades, against a backdrop of violence and dismissed as a sham by the opposition. The election went ahead despite the unrest that has swept Syria since March 2011, when President Bashar al-Assad resorted to force in a bid to quash a revolt against his autocratic regime.
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