Damascus-Sana
Since the early hours of this morning, intellectuals and artists flocked to the polling stations for the presidential elections in the city of Damascus to cast their votes and participate in the election of a president for the country.
Through ten sites of public cultural institutions, as well as bodies affiliated with the Arab Writers Union and the Artists Syndicate, they were chosen to be polling stations, the votes of voters who converted their participation in the election process into joy and singing events and into a national wedding, as happened in the Ministry of Culture Center in Adnan al-Maliki Square.
At the headquarters of the Damascus branch of the Syndicate of Artists in Mazraa, a group of singers and actors cast their votes, as the artist Amani Wali described the heavy demand of Syrian citizens to participate in the presidential election as evidence that the will to
live in this country, despite the ferocity of the war, has not been broken.
And to the headquarters of the General Union of Plastic Artists in Al-Firdaws Street, a number of artists went to participate in the ballot, including the artist Bashir Bashir, who saw that the most important characteristic of the Syrian people is that they stand up in all circumstances despite the wars, conspiracies and difficulties they have been exposed to .. He is advancing to exercise his constitutional right to choose whoever represents him and leads him. Towards victory.
In the Syrian General Book Authority, whose electoral center received intellectuals and writers in the first hours to open the door for voting, Dr. Muhammad Qasim, Director of Arab Heritage Revival, stated that the post-presidential elections are not the same as before.
