RT NewsBashar Assad has won a landslide victory in the Syrian presidential poll with 88.7 percent of the vote, according to the parliament speaker. It will secure him a third term in office amidst a bloody civil war, which stemmed from protests against his rule.
“I declare the victory of Dr Bashar Hafez Assad as president of the Syrian Arab Republic with an absolute majority of the votes cast in the election,” parliament speaker Mohammad Laham said in a televised address from his office in the Syrian parliament.
A total of 10.2 million people voted for Assad. The voter turnout stood at 73.42 percent. No violations have been reported, Syria’s Higher Judicial Committee for Elections said as quoted by SANA news agency.
Syrian officials said the result was a vindication of Assad’s three year campaign against those fighting to get rid of him.
This was the first multi-candidate presidential election in Syria for almost 50 years. The other two candidates for the top post were a businessman, Hassan Nouri, and a government lawmaker Maher Haijar.
Despite the high turnout figures, residents of some areas in the country’s north and east were obstructed from voting by rebel forces.
The conflict in Syria has already killed 160,000 people and created nearly 3 million refugees, as well as displacing more people inside Syria.
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Diebold to the rescue?
You postulation would have one believe the Syrian people would rather have the ‘rebels’ (re: various murderers) running the show in Syria.
Jolly, I heard on the news today that in Syria they vote the old fashioned way…paper ballots. All seems fair and square to me.
Let’s face it, if the scum running this country want him out…what
does that tell us??
1611believer…….
I’m right there with you on this………
in the base 10 system of math……..there is only
the one or two…………
and the West……….US Murders……….are of but one side………..that leaves the other side…………and who wants to be on the US side of murders………..
God it’s despicable……….simply, near to extincting our peoples all over the world………..with one big blow up……..now how smart is that????