Unanimity is the word that can describe Syria’s presidential election.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a seven-year term with 95.1% of the vote, according to an announcement made on Thursday by the speaker of parliament in Damascus, after a vote criticized by the opposition and Western states, AFP reported.
The other two opponents in Wednesday’s election, Abdallah Salloum Abdallah, a former minister and parliamentarian, and Mahmoud Marei, a member of the opposition tolerated by the government, won 1.5% and 3.3% of the vote, respectively.
In a war-torn country since 2011, 14.2 million people took part in the vote, a turnout of 76.64%.
The elections were held in areas controlled by the regime, ie two-thirds of Syria’s territory, as well as in some embassies abroad.
In 2014, Assad won more than 88% of the vote, according to official results.
Western states have called the election “free and fair,” and the Syrian opposition has denounced a “masquerade.”
With an election campaign under the slogan “Hope through Work”, Bashar al-Assad sought to establish himself as the only architect of a reconstruction that Syria desperately needs.
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