Syria: Election process across country marked by high turnout
Election centers were opened Tuesday at 07:00 for Syrian citizens across the country to cast their ballots in the presidential elections. Syrian citizens have flocked to the election centers to cast their votes and choose a president for the country for the next seven years. The presidential elections in Syria is the first pluralistic election process based on the new Constitution of Syria which was endorsed in 2012. The number of the election centers in all Syrian provinces is 9601, and they include 11776 ballot boxes. Three candidates are: Maher Abdel-Hafiz Hajjar, Hassan Abdullah al-Nouri and Bashar al-Assad are competing in the presidential elections after the Supreme Judicial Court accepted their applications to run for the post of president on May 10. More than 200 mass media, including news agencies, TVs, radios, newspapers from various countries in the world, among them the Western countries are accompanying the presidential elections in Syria.
SANA: International delegations stress Syria's voting process was fair and democratic
Stephen Lendman ■ Syrians Vote || June 3 was historic. It was Syria's first ever free, fair, open democratic presidential election. Hassan al-Nouri and Maher Hajjar competed with Assad. He's overwhelmingly popular. He'll win easily. Only his victory margin remains to be determined. Syrians want no one else leading them. Especially while conflict continues. He's fighting for Syrian freedom. He's defeating Obama's dirty game. [...] It bears repeating. Syria's election was open, free and fair. It mocked America's sham process.