President Bashar al-Assad won 97.6 percent of the vote in a national referendum on Sunday that anointed him to a second seven-year term, officials said. The 41-year-old president was the only candidate allowed to put his name forward in the procedures leading to the vote. Parliament held a session to ratify the results. Then all 250 members rose and chanted ?Syria has only God and Bashar!?.
BERLIN, May 29 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday cautioned against a growing sentiment in Israel to pursue peace with Syria instead of with warring Palestinian factions, saying there is "no substitute" for creating a Palestinian state.
The United States derided Syria's Bashar al-Assad Tuesday for claiming to have won a second seven-year mandate as president in a referendum boycotted by the opposition.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has won a second seven-year mandate after netting 97 percent of the vote in a referendum boycotted by the opposition, officials announced on Tuesday.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is a young would-be reformer who has won another seven-year term in power after refusing to bow to Western pressure for reform or to renounce his anti-US credentials.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has won a second seven-year term in office after netting more than 97 percent of the vote in a referendum, the interior minister announced on Tuesday.
DAMASCUS, Syria, 4:44 p.m. May 29 (AP): President Bashar Assad won another seven years in office, getting 97 percent of the vote in a referendum on his leadership in which he was the only candidate, according to results announced Tuesday.
Syria's President Bashar al- Assad wins another seven year term in a ballot in which he was the only candidate.
Israel and Syria both violate the agreement to separate forces on the Golan, but the infringements are minor, according to the United Nations.
THE US derided Syria's Bashar al-Assad overnight for claiming to have won a second seven-year mandate as president in a referendum boycotted by the opposition.