Presidential elections will be held in Syria on May 26
MOSCOW, May 24. /TASS/. The situation on the ground in Syria has stabilized, with resurging flashpoints of terrorism being snuffed out, particularly due to the joint efforts of Russia, Turkey and Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the Argumenty I Fakty weekly published in its Monday’s issue. Concerning the topic of Syria, it is important to note that thanks to the agreements with Ankara, both bilateral and in the format of the Astana ‘trio’ involving Iran, the most viable mechanism of crisis resolution has been created. The situation on the ground, including in the areas of recent fighting, has stabilized, with emerging flashpoints of international terrorism being choked off, including through our joint efforts. Moreover, Russia, Turkey and Iran have managed to consolidate various strata of Syrian society and organize work on that country’s future political system in the format of th
Posted by Scott Lucas | May 24, 2021 |
A man rides a bicycle past campaign billboards of Bashar al-Assad, Damascus, May 23, 2021 (Louai Beshara/AFP)
UPDATE, MAY 24: Syrians abroad have spoken about the staging of Wednesday’s Presidential “election” to keep Bashar al-Assad in power.
Saed Eido, originally from Aleppo and now in Gaziantep in southeast Turkey, said:
My brother disappeared into a regime prison in 2013. We still have no idea if he is alive or dead. They won’t give us any information. All this Presidential election does is whitewash crimes and maintain a dictatorship.
With State media featuring gatherings for Assad but not the other two nominal candidates Mahmoud Ahmad Mar’ai and Abdallah Saloum Abdallah Suhail al-Ghazi, a non-resident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, explains:
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