Syrians Go To Polls in Presidential Election Seen as Sham
The Media Line Staff
05/26/2021
Syrians headed to the polls on Wednesday to vote in presidential elections. It is the second presidential election to take place during the country’s decade-long civil war.
Current President Bashar Assad is expected to win a fourth term in an election that has been called fraudulent and a rubber-stamp of his rule. Assad came to power in 2000 after the death of his father Hafez, who was president of Syria for 30 years.
The other two candidates in the election are former deputy cabinet minister Abdallah Saloum Abdallah, and Mahmoud Ahmed Marei, head of the Syrian Democratic Front opposition coalition formed in 2016.