Thousands of Syrians, filling the streets around their embassy in Beirut, turned out to vote Wednesday in Syria's controversial presidential poll being staged as civil war rages in the country. For the early vote by expats, the Yarzeh district of east Beirut was festooned with Syrian flags and portraits of President Bashar al-Assad, who is expected to cruise to victory in the June 3 election. The yellow flags of Leba**n's Shiite militant movement Hezbollah, a staunch Assad ally in the three-year conflict with rebels, were also prominent. Of the estimated three million Syrians living abroad, including both refugees and peacetime residents, only around 200,000 were entitled to vote on Wednesday, in 39 embassies abroad, a foreign ministry source said in Damascus.
05-28-2014, 09:11 PM
Syrians stream to embassies to vote in controversial poll
Thousands of Syrians, filling the streets around their embassy in Beirut, turned out to vote Wednesday in Syria's controversial presidential poll being staged as civil war rages in the country. For the early vote by expats, the Yarzeh district of east Beirut was festooned with Syrian flags and portraits of President Bashar al-Assad, who is expected to cruise to victory in the June 3 election. The yellow flags of Leba**n's Shiite militant movement Hezbollah, a staunch Assad ally in the three-year conflict with rebels, were also prominent. Of the estimated three million Syrians living abroad, including both refugees and peacetime residents, only around 200,000 were entitled to vote on Wednesday, in 39 embassies abroad, a foreign ministry source said in Damascus.
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