{"id":11209,"date":"2021-05-26T09:24:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T09:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=11209"},"modified":"2021-05-26T09:25:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T09:25:16","slug":"syrians-take-to-the-ballot-box-as-assad-eyes-another-term-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/05\/26\/syrians-take-to-the-ballot-box-as-assad-eyes-another-term-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrians take to the ballot box as Assad eyes another term as president"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Syrians headed to the polls on Wednesday to elect their president, with most thinking incumbent President Bashar al-Assad is slated to win another term comfortably.<\/p>\n

The controversial vote is the second election since the start of a decade-long conflict, that has killed more than 388,000 people and displaced half the pre-war population.<\/p>\n

Huge election posters glorifying Assad have mushroomed across the two-thirds of the country under government rule.<\/p>\n

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With opponents abroad barred from running and no voting in the swathes of territory outside his control, Assad faces just two virtually unknown challengers.<\/p>\n

The official news agency SANA declared voting had started as planned at 7:00 am (0400 GMT) and state television showed long queues forming in several parts of the country.<\/p>\n

Syrians can cast their ballots in more than 12,000 polling centres, and results are expected to be announced by Friday evening, 48 hours after voting closes.<\/p>\n

The election takes place amid the lowest levels of violence since 2011 — but with an economy in free-fall.<\/p>\n

More than 80 percent of the population live below the poverty line, and the Syrian pound has plunged in value against the dollar, with inflation skyrocketing.<\/p>\n

Assad’s campaign slogan, “Hope through work”, evokes the colossal reconstruction needed to rebuild the country, requiring billions in funding.<\/p>\n

‘Tolerated Opposition’<\/b><\/p>\n

Assad, a 55-year-old ophthalmologist by training, was first elected by referendum in 2000 after the death of his father Hafez, who had ruled Syria for 30 years.<\/p>\n

He faces former state minister Abdallah Salloum Abdallah and Mahmoud Merhi, a member of the so-called “tolerated opposition”, long described by exiled Opposition leaders as an extension of the regime.<\/p>\n

Assad has refrained from holding campaign media events and interviews.<\/p>\n

But he issued a general amnesty for thousands of prisoners earlier this month, on top of a series of decrees that aim to improve economic conditions.<\/p>\n

Syrian Interior Minister Mohammad Khaled al-Rahmoun on Tuesday said that 18 million Syrians at home and abroad were officially eligible to vote.<\/p>\n

But the actual number of voters will likely be smaller, with wide swathes of Syria outside Assad’s control, and with many refugees excluded.<\/p>\n

Last week, thousands of Syrian refugees and expatriates cast an early ballot in the embassies of their host countries.<\/p>\n

But Syrians who fled the country illegally — and so who could not show an exit stamp in their passport — were barred from voting.<\/p>\n

Several countries that oppose Assad blocked the vote altogether, including Turkey and Germany, which host large Syrian refugee populations.<\/p>\n

US, EU reject elections<\/b><\/p>\n

The US and the European Union said Tuesday the elections was “neither free nor fair,” and Syria’s fragmented Opposition has called the polls a “farce”.<\/p>\n

But they will watch powerless as Assad prepares to renew his grip on power.<\/p>\n

In Syria’s rebel-held northwest, home to three million people, opposition activists on Tuesday distributed mock campaign posters ridiculing Assad in protest.<\/p>\n

Kurdish authorities in the northeast, who have carved out a semi-autonomous zone, said they are “not concerned” with the election.<\/p>\n

In the last multi-candidate poll in 2014, Assad took 88% of the vote.<\/p>\n

It was Syri’s first election in nearly 50 years, with Assad and his father Hafez renewing their mandates in successive referendums.<\/p>\n

It took place as the war raged, with the air force bombarding rebel areas in Aleppo and fierce fighting in Hama, Damascus, Idlib and Daraa.<\/p>\n

This time around, the frontlines are relatively quiet.<\/p>\n

“Assad is running the risk of being the only certainty in a country in ruins,” said a European diplomat following Syrian affairs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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