War-ravaged Syria Votes With Assad Set To Win By Maher Al-Mounes and Rouba El-Husseini in Beirut
05/26/21 AT 4:27 AM
Polls opened across Syria Wednesday for a presidential election in which few doubt Bashar al-Assad will extend his grip on power for a fourth term, in a war-battered country mired in economic crisis.
The controversial vote is the second election since the start of a decade-long civil war, that has killed more than 388,000 people and displaced half the pre-war population. Profile de Bashar al-Assad, president of Syria Photo: AFP / Kenan AUGEARD
Huge election posters glorifying Assad have mushroomed across the two-thirds of the country under government rule.
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