Damascus, June 5 (IANS) Incumbent Bashar al-Assad's victory in the Syrian presidential election has been met with much criticism from the country's opposition and the West, which dismissed the ballot as a "sham". Assad has won a third seven-year term by garnering an overwhelming 88.7 percent of the vote in the presidential election Tuesday, it was an**unced Wednesday. Claiming that the people of Syria voted "out of fear", a group of opposition fighters de**unced the vote as "elections of blood", without legitimacy, Xinhua reported. It was the first multi-candidate presidential election in Syria's modern history and it took place amid a reeling three-year political crisis and conflict.
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Assad's overwhelming win an**ys West
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