Syria .. The third legislative elections after the revolution and the opposition describe it as comic and illegitimate

On Sunday, the Syrian regime is holding the third legislative elections after the 2011 revolution, and the opposition described this poll as a farce, considering that it lacks legitimacy.

2100 candidates, including prominent businessmen whose names are on the list of Western sanctions, are competing for seats in the People's Assembly. Elections are held in areas under the control of the regime, and do not include opposition-held areas in northern Syria, especially in Idlib and parts of the countryside of Aleppo.

The result is a foregone conclusion, as the ruling Baath Party has for decades achieved an overwhelming majority in this poll, which is held every 4 years.

Voters cast their ballots at more than 7,000 polling stations in the areas controlled by the regime, which allocated voting centers to those displaced from areas not subject to it.

On the eve of the poll, two explosive devices exploded near the Anas bin Malik mosque in the Nahr Aisha district of the capital, Damascus, killing one person, according to the official Syrian News Agency, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had previously prayed at the Anas bin Malik mosque.

The head of the Syrian coalition, Nasr Hariri, said that these elections do not have legitimacy, because the Assad regime has lost its legitimacy since its first bloodshed from the people at the start of the revolution, as he put it.

The Anatolia news agency quoted Hariri as saying that these elections lack the most basic elements of democracy, as they take place under the supervision of the army and security services of the Assad regime, indicating that they do not reflect the will of the Syrian people.

For his part, the head of the Syrian interim government emanating from the opposition, Abd al-Rahman Mustafa, described the elections as a farce, indicating that the Syrian people are looking forward to holding free and fair elections on the basis of a new constitution.

Mustafa said that the Syrian regime aims, through what he described as formal elections, to evade the merits of the political solution, elaborate a solution on its dimensions, and continue to judge the blood of the Syrians.