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Elections in Syria: Assad won more than 95% of the vote

In a pre-determined victory in a fourth term, the dictator received more than 13.5 million votes in elections held only in the territories controlled by the regime.

His closest rival won only 1.5%, and the West announced it would not recognize the results

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Thursday, 27 May 2021, 23:45 Updated: 23:51

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In the video: Presidential elections in Syria (Photo: Reuters)

Assad and his wife vote in elections, today (Photo: AP)

Syrian President Bashar Assad won the presidential election tonight (Thursday) with more than 95 percent of the vote.

Assad will begin his fourth term, having inherited his father Hafez Assad in 2000 after his death.

Elections in areas controlled by the regime only, with the victory of the ruler seems guaranteed even before the opening of the polls.

The United States and European countries have announced that they will not recognize the election results, but Assad dismissed it.

"The value of these positions is nil," he said after voting in the Duma, a suburb in the capital Damascus that was attacked with chemical weapons during the regime's war on the rebels.

Beside him was his wife Asma, who herself was placed on the US sanctions list for her part in the violent repression throughout the ten years of the conflict.

"Syria is not what they are trying to sell, one city against another city one committee against another community or a civil war, today we are proving from Duma that the citizens of Syria are united."

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