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Bashar al-Assad Re-Elected for Fourth Term as President of Syria
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth seven-year term in a presidential election on Wednesday dismissed by the opposition as a sham, news wires reported. Al-Assad won 95.1% of the valid votes, head of the Syrian parliament Hamoud Sabagh said. Some 78.6% of eligible voters cast ballots inside and outside Syria, Sabagh added at a press conference in Damascus.
Presidential Candidate al-Assad: Election Entitlement and Popular Response Prove Syrian Citizen Is Free
Candidate for the post of President of the Syrian Arab Republic, Bashar al-Assad and his wife cast their votes at a polling station in the Municipality Council of Douma city in Damascus countryside.
Polls Closed in Syria, Vote Count Begins
Syria's Higher Judicial Committee for Presidential Elections informed that the polls in the presidential election have closed.
"The election is over, the vote count has begun," the committee stated, quoted by the SANA news agency.
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