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Assad kicks off fourth term in office but no inclusive politics in sight
The United Nations had pinned hopes on this election as a watershed in efforts to reform Syria but the much-awaited constitutional overhaul that was supposed to precede it never happened.
Sunday 30/05/2021
People stand near posters depicting Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, ahead of the May 26 presidential election, in Damascus. (REUTERS)
DAMASCUS Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has won a fourth term in office with 95 percent of the vote in a ballot dismissed abroad as a “farce.”
With the conflict mostly on hold but his country’s economy in ruins, what are Assad’s priorities likely to be when he kicks off his first post-war mandate?
Saturday, 29 May, 2021 - 04:15
Syrians wave national flags and carry a large portrait of President Bashar al-Assad as they celebrate in the streets of Damascus - AFP Asharq Al-Awsat
Syria s President Bashar al-Assad has won a fourth term in office with 95 percent of the vote in a ballot dismissed abroad as a farce .
With the conflict mostly on hold but his country s economy in ruins, what are Assad s priorities likely to be when he kicks off his first post-war mandate?
The percentage of the vote official results say Assad won in Wednesday s presidential election is 95.1 percent, every parameter of which was controlled by him and his Baath party, AFP reported.