According to the UN, 60 percent of the country's population suffers from food shortages.

Therefore, subsidized bread is a large part of the diet for many.

- Rice is too expensive.

We can not afford.

Meat is not something to think about at all, says Bashir Said.

But the food issue is not the most important issue for all the Kurdish Syrians.

- The most important thing, more important than the election, is to solve our Kurdish question, says Kholoud Elias, and continues:

- What are our benefits from holding elections if the situation remains as it is?

Watch SVT's Middle East correspondent Stina Blomgren's feature from the food shortage in Syria in the clip above.