The ongoing electoral process in Syria's Hasakah Governorate is taking on an intensely crisis-driven dimension, as the developments surrounding the sub-elections for the first session of the "People's Assembly" have turned into a tool for consolidating dominance and reproducing mechanisms of political exclusion in the post-Assad era.

A close analytical reading of the structure of the current electoral lists and the mechanisms of their imposition reveals blatant distortions that undermine the principles of pluralism and confiscate the free will of local communities at both the representational and legal levels.

On the demographic and political map of Syria's Jazira region, these lists represent a clear act of representational appropriation through the deliberate reduction of the Christian spectrum in all its historical extensions. The genuine weight of the Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian component has been sidelined, while its representation has been forcibly confined to names and elites belonging to a single factional color that holds neither popular mandate nor grassroots legitimacy.

This stark injustice is further reflected in restricting the representation of this authentic national and religious component to only one seat. This constitutes an explicit historical and demographic distortion in a region that is considered the historical and civilizational stronghold of the Chaldeans-Syriacs-Assyrians. Such a minimal allocation effectively amounts to a form of systematic targeting of what remains of the Christian presence in its own ancestral land.

This exclusionary, top-down approach has not been limited to the Christian component alone, extending to generate a widespread sense of grievance and marginalization among the other components of the province as well. These communities increasingly view these electoral lists as a questionable political engineering project aimed at confiscating their independent decision-making and imposing a unilateral form of guardianship over them.

From a procedural and constitutional perspective, these elections fall into the trap of distorted formal democracy. The reliance on pre-packaged, closed lists transforms the entire process into a legislative spectacle that lacks integrity and genuine competitive substance.

The political paradox reaches its peak in pushing the Christians of Jazira to participate in an electoral process governed by constitutional references that are incapable of recognizing their national and civilizational existence. These same frameworks clearly entrench a fragmented and deficient form of citizenship, categorizing the indigenous peoples of the land into inferior tiers. As a result, participation under such structural discrimination becomes a form of legitimizing a reality of self-exclusion and imposed marginalization.

​The continuation of this trajectory, laden with violations, threatens to destabilize civil peace and undermine prospects for stability in the new Syria. This, in turn, necessitates an outright rejection of these lists and their immediate annulment.

The only viable way out of this crisis requires dismantling the current exclusionary approach and immediately initiating a genuine and direct process of consultation with the active spiritual, political, and social authorities in the Jazira region. This is essential to ensure the provision of real, unfettered space and genuine freedom for the Christian component -- particularly the Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian community -- to select its true representatives through an independent decision rooted in grassroots constituencies and living community referents, with a fair level of representation that rejects marginalization or reduction to a single seat. This principle applies equally to all other components in the region without exception.

Accepting anything less, or persisting in the practice of imposing pre-engineered lists from above, can only be described as blatant deception and a manipulation of popular will, as well as a mockery of public awareness and an attempt to legitimize authoritarianism under the guise of a fragile form of democracy (we apologize to the current authority, as it does not prefer the use of this term). Such an approach cannot withstand the demands of building a just and equitable citizenship-based state.