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04-28-2014, 05:32 PM
Syria's Assad Will Run for President in June
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It was never really in doubt, but **w it's official. Syria's current president, Bashar al-Assad, an**unced on Monday that he will be a candidate in the June 3 presidential elections.
Assad (http://mashable.com/category/bashar-al-assad/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) submitted his **mination to Syria's constitutional court, according to Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/28/us-syria-crisis-assad-idUSBREA3R0LH20140428). Ever since the Syrian parliament an**unced the official date (http://mashable.com/2014/04/21/syria-presidential-elections-june/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) for the elections a week ago, experts expected Assad to seek re-election, but he waited a week to an**unce his candidacy
See also: Does Syria Have an Internet Kill Switch? (http://mashable.com/2013/08/29/syria-internet-kill-switch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
"We are living in an atmosphere of elections which Syria is holding for the first time in its modern history," Assad was quoted as saying by the state-run TV, according to news (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/28/us-syria-crisis-assad-idUSBREA3R0LH20140428) reports (http://time.com/79067/syrias-assad-to-run-for-president-in-june-3-vote/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20time/topstories%20(TIME:%20Top%20Stories)) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/28/syria-assad-runs-for-president/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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It was never really in doubt, but **w it's official. Syria's current president, Bashar al-Assad, an**unced on Monday that he will be a candidate in the June 3 presidential elections.
Assad (http://mashable.com/category/bashar-al-assad/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) submitted his **mination to Syria's constitutional court, according to Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/28/us-syria-crisis-assad-idUSBREA3R0LH20140428). Ever since the Syrian parliament an**unced the official date (http://mashable.com/2014/04/21/syria-presidential-elections-june/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) for the elections a week ago, experts expected Assad to seek re-election, but he waited a week to an**unce his candidacy
See also: Does Syria Have an Internet Kill Switch? (http://mashable.com/2013/08/29/syria-internet-kill-switch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
"We are living in an atmosphere of elections which Syria is holding for the first time in its modern history," Assad was quoted as saying by the state-run TV, according to news (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/28/us-syria-crisis-assad-idUSBREA3R0LH20140428) reports (http://time.com/79067/syrias-assad-to-run-for-president-in-june-3-vote/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20time/topstories%20(TIME:%20Top%20Stories)) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/28/syria-assad-runs-for-president/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Syria (http://mashable.com/category/syria/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Bashar Al Assad (http://mashable.com/category/bashar-al-assad/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Us World (http://mashable.com/us-world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Politics (http://mashable.com/politics/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and World (http://mashable.com/world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1398690902 (http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1398690902)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/cTmNyOnTLk0