List of members of the People's Assembly (Syria), 2026–present

The Assembly’s first session was scheduled for 6 July 2026,^[5] but was delayed until 12 July 2026.^[6][7]

The proceedings were opened by Mohammed Taha al-Ahmed, the chairman of the Higher Committee for People’s Assembly Elections.^[8] During the session, members took a collective oath before President Ahmed al-Sharaa.^[9] Osama al-Assaf, the oldest member of the legislature,^[10] chaired the session until the selection process concluded,^[11] during which he opened the nomination process for the position of Speaker and invited the members of the temporary legal committee to supervise the electoral process, oversee the counting of votes, and establish the electoral procedures.^[12][13] Ahmed al-Omar, Wissam Zaghloul, and Bishr Hawi, were appointed to a temporary legal committee tasked with overseeing the electoral process for the selection of the assembly’s leadership.^[9]

Three members submitted their candidacies for the position of Speaker of the People's Assembly: Abdul Hamid al-Awak, Mouayad Ghazlan al-Qablawi, and Mohammad Ramez Koraj.^[14] The members of the People's Assembly elected al-Awak as Speaker with 99 votes out of 205 ballots cast in a secret ballot, defeating al-Qablawi, who received 75 votes, and Koraj, who received 31 votes. One blank ballot was declared invalid, according to Anadolu Agency.^[15][16][17] Al-Awak was the first person to hold the position of Speaker of the People's Assembly since the fall of the Assad regime.^[18]

The members of the Syrian People’s Assembly elected Mustafa al-Mousa as first deputy speaker, Madonna Bishara as second deputy speaker, and Mu'ayyad Habib as secretary. Moussa received 122 votes and Bishara 67 votes from among 10 candidates competing for the two deputy speaker positions, while Habib was elected secretary with 87 votes.^[19]

The extraordinary first session of the first legislative term concluded on 30 July 2026 after two sittings held on the same day, during which the People's Assembly adopted its 231-article Internal Rules of Procedure by majority vote, following five consecutive days of deliberations, amendments, and proposals by members of the assembly.^[20]

The President of Syria is to appoint 70 members, one-third of the assembly. By late May 2026, Syrian officials reported that President Ahmed al-Sharaa's list of appointees had been finalized and would be announced "in the coming days", and that the assembly's inaugural session had been preliminarily scheduled for 8 June 2026, after the Eid al-Adha holiday; the three Suwayda seats were to remain vacant until security conditions allowed elections there.^[27][28] Hawar News Agency reported that first session of the People's Assembly would be held on 8 June 2026,^[29] but despite those reports, it did not convene.^[30]

On 30 June, it was officially confirmed that the list of al-Sharaa's appointees would be released on 1 July.^[31] Al-Sharaa's appointees were chosen by a committee that completed a series of meetings and closed interviews conducted between 15 and 21 June, interviewing 100 candidates.^[32]

The appointments were officially announced on 1 July, with 15 women among those appointed, 13 of whom had previously been imprisoned under the previous regime.^[33][34] The appointees included three members of Syria's Turkmen community: Abdurrahman Mustafa, president of the Syrian Turkmen Assembly, along with Imad Barq and Khalil Darda al-Abdullah.^[35] The Secretary-General of the People's Assembly, Muhammad Hamza Shamout, explained that the "supplementary third" of the Assembly's members comprises 23 notables and 47 qualified professionals, including 12 with masters degrees and 17 with PhDs.^[5]