A parliamentary election was last held in 2007, and Mr Assad's Baath party won 134 of the 250 seats, with no other party winning more than eight seats. The next election will be in April 2011, but the outcome will have little consequence as the primary role of the parliament is to rubber-stamp presidential decrees. The parliament proposes a presidential candidate every seven years who is then voted on in a referendum. Mr Assad was confirmed for his second term as president in 2007.