{"id":13797,"date":"2014-06-05T17:43:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T09:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13797"},"modified":"2014-06-05T17:43:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T09:43:53","slug":"assad-wins-syrian-elections-with-88-7-percent-of-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/05\/assad-wins-syrian-elections-with-88-7-percent-of-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Assad wins Syrian elections with 88.7 percent of votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_7617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7617\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Syria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7617\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Syria-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Unidentified demonstrators support President Bashar al -Assad of Syria outside the Geneva headquarters of the UN, January 31, 2014, Geneva, Switzerland. FILE PHOTO Martin Good \/ Shutterstock\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Syria-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Syria.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unidentified demonstrators support President Bashar al -Assad of Syria outside the Geneva headquarters of the UN, January 31, 2014, Geneva, Switzerland. FILE PHOTO Martin Good \/ Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">DAMASCUS &#8212; In Syrian presidential elections, Bashar al-Assad, getting 10,319,723 votes which counts for 88.7 percent, was elected as Syrian president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Syrian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Jihad al-Laham appeared on TV and declared results of the presidential elections, which indicated a landslide victory by Bashar al-Assad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The two other candidates received totally less than a million votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Al-Laham said that 11,840,575 persons (73.42 percent of eligible voters) cast their votes in the presidential elections on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Syrian Supreme Elections Committee had declared the total number of eligible voters in the country 15,840,575 persons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Bashar al-Assad, son of late Hafiz al-Assad, former Syrian president, has been in power since 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Syrian people, for the first time in their political history, participated in a competitive elections on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Following amending Syrian Constitution in year 2012, presidential elections became competitive and the president can be in power only for two seven-year terms.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAMASCUS &#8212; In Syrian presidential elections, Bashar al-Assad, getting 10,319,723 votes which counts for 88.7 percent, was elected as Syrian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":7617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4727,552,2248],"class_list":["post-13797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-assad","tag-elections","tag-syria","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}