Posted by Scott Lucas | Apr 19, 2021 |
A torn poster of Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo city, 2016
The Assad regime will stage a Presidential “election” on May 26.
The Speaker of the People’s Assembly, Hammoudah Sabbagh, announced on Sunday that the process will begin on April 19 with submissions of candidacy.
Some Syrians who live abroad will vote on May 20. However, many of Syria’s 5.6 million refugees and more than 6 million displaced internally about half of the country’s population will not be able to cast a ballot.
Bashar al-Assad and his late father Hafez have ruled Syria since 1970. Dissent has been repressed, particularly with the deadly crackdown on the Syrian rising killing hundreds of thousands of civilians through bombing, ground assaults, and execution, torture, and poor prison conditions since March 2011.
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