Syria presidential campaign launches despite war

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https://s1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XiKCTvhJe1.V8cn9cU54fw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-AE_XE/News/AFPIntEn/00cdfd1cd596547db6ce998be667a09a436d3cf6.jpg (https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/syria-presidential-campaign-launches-despite-war-124536508.html)Campaigning began Sunday for Syria's June 3 presidential election expected to return Bashar al-Assad to power, as the regime marked a symbolic victory with the exit of rebels from Homs. In Damascus, campaign posters lauding Assad hung on shopping streets and in public gardens, in the run-up to the country's first multi-candidate presidential vote. Assad, who is competing for his third seven-year term, came to ****** in 2000, after the death of his father and predecessor Hafez al-Assad, who had been in power since 1970. Maher Abdel Hafiz Hajjar is an independent MP and former communist party member from the country's second city Aleppo, and Hassan Abdullah al-Nuri is a Damascus businessman who was a member of the internal opposition tolerated by Assad's government.




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