Syria's national electoral commission has announced that the country's ruling Baath party and its allies won a majority of seats in parliamentary elections last week.

In a widely expected victory, President Bashar al-Assad's Baath movement and its allies ran under the "National Unity" coalition and won 200 of the parliament's 250 seats. The commission published the names of all candidates who had won seats. The ruling Baath party has governed Syria for the past half-century.

The vote on April 13th is the second parliamentary ballot since the beginning of the war in 2011, but the UN says it will not recognize the election.