Tuesday, June 01, 2021

#SYRIA: Assad Wins 4th Term In Election West Says Wasn't "Free or Fair"

[world politics news]

 
Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term as president of war-torn Syria with 95.1 percent of the votes cast in government-held areas, official results have shown, after a vote dismissed by the opposition and Western powers as a sham.

Wednesday’s controversial presidential vote was the second since the beginning of Syria’s uprising-turned-war a decade ago, a conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, forced millions to leave the country and wrecked its infrastructure.

[FULL STORY HERE]

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