ASSAD WINS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN SYRIA WITH 95.1%

Fri 28 May 2021:

Syrian president Bashar Assad won the presidential elections in Syria with 95.1 percent of the vote, Syrian parliament speaker Hammouda Sabbagh said.

“For the candidate Bashar Assad 13,540,860 votes … he won, receiving an absolute majority of votes. The total number of those who voted in Syria and in polling stations in other countries 18,107,109. Assad received 95.1 percent of the vote,” Sabbagh said.

The election went ahead despite a U.N.-led peace process that had called for voting under international supervision that would help pave the way for a new constitution and a political settlement.

The win delivers Assad, 55, seven more years in power and lengthens his family’s rule to nearly six decades. His father, Hafez al-Assad, led Syria for 30 years until his death in 2000.

The vote was boycotted by the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces who administer an autonomous oil-rich region in the northeast and in northwestern Idlib region, the last existing rebel enclave, where people denounced the election in large demonstrations on Wednesday.

In the previous election in 2014, he received more than 88 percent of the vote.

The presidential election in Syria took place on May 26. More than 12,000 polling stations were open from 7 a.m. to midnight. According to official data, the voting took place in all provinces without violations.

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