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War-ravaged Syria heads to polls with Assad set to win
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Tuesday, 25 May, 2021 - 08:45
Banners and posters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on a street in Damascus before the elections (AFP) Beirut - London - Asharq Al-Awsat
Syria will hold Wednesday its second presidential elections since the outbreak of the conflict, and they are all but certain to deliver a fourth term for President Bashar al-Assad a fourth term.
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mikdad said that the presidential elections are “thousands of times better” than in the US, which he described as “a farce.”
Mikdad described the voting processes in Syria’s embassies as “very remarkable” and having an “atmosphere of freedom and democracy” in which Syrians expressed “their views with great precision and freedom.”
Published on: Tuesday, May 25, 2021
By: AFP
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A man rides a bicycle past election billboards depicting Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus. (AFP)
BEIRUT: President Bashar al-Assad, whose family has ruled Syria for over half a century, faces an election Wednesday meant to cement his image as the only hope for recovery in the war-battered country, analysts say.
His campaign slogan, “Hope through Work”, evokes the reconstruction of a country ravaged by a decade-long conflict that has claimed more than 388,000 lives and displaced half of Syria’s pre-war population.
In the capital Damascus, Assad’s portraits line roads and inundate main squares, outnumbering those of his two little-known challengers.
Syria s predictable polls: A pledge of allegiance to Assad
By AFP - May 25,2021 - Last updated at May 25,2021
People walk next to election campaign billboards depicting Syrian President Bashar Assad, a candidate for the upcoming presidential vote, in the capital Damascus, on Monday (AFP photo)
BEIRUT President Bashar Assad, whose family has ruled Syria for over half a century, faces an election on Wednesday meant to cement his image as the only hope for recovery in the war-battered country, analysts say.
His campaign slogan, Hope through Work , evokes the reconstruction of a country ravaged by a decade-long conflict that has claimed more than 388,000 lives and displaced half of Syria s pre-war population.
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