Assad wins vote branded illegitimate by opposition
 

https://s2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/J...397646f8d9.jpgSyrian President Bashar al-Assad won a new seven-year term with nearly 90 percent of a vote in a poll branded "illegitimate" by the opposition and a "**n-election" by Washington. Assad said Thursday that "the high tur**ut was a strong message to the West and the countries implicated in the war on Syria." Tens of thousands took to the streets in government-held areas of Syria even before the results were an**unced Wednesday evening, waving portraits of Assad and the official Syrian flag. As celebratory gunfire erupted in the capital and loyalist areas across Syria, at least 10 people were killed as the bullets fell back to earth, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.




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