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May 12, 2024 · Syria will hold its next parliamentary election in mid-July, state media reported, after President Bashar Al Assad made changes to the ruling Baath party command amid a deterioration in the economy and a civil war in its second decade.
May 19, 2021 · Unfortunately, the Syrian presidential election — conducted without a U.N. mandate and lacking the United Nations’ imprimatur — significantly undermines the Geneva process, deepening its obsolescence.
May 26, 2021 · Wednesday’s vote is held under Syria’s current constitution, disregarding U.N. Security Council Resolution 2254 from 2015, which unanimously endorsed a political process and road map to peace that begins with drafting a new constitution and ends with U.N.-supervised elections.
May 28, 2021 · The election is likely to offer little change to conditions in Syria. While Assad and his allies — Russia and Iran — may be seeking a new seal of legitimacy for a president in office since 2000, his re-election is likely to deepen the rift with the West, driving him closer to Russian and Iranian backers as well as China.
May 27, 2021 · DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad was re-elected in a landslide, officials said Thursday, ushering in a fourth seven-year term in the war-torn country following an election described as illegitimate and a sham by the West and his opposition.
May 28, 2021 · 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...
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May 4, 2021 · Syrians on Wednesday cast their votes in an election that rights groups and Western governments say is a foregone conclusion. President Bashar al-Assad is all but guaranteed to win the presidential poll, securing a fourth seven-year term in the midst of a decade-long revolt against his rule.
