Maher Hajjar

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Re-elected

Published by Novinite on Thu, 06/05/2014 - 10:38

Bashar al-Assad has won Syria's presidential election by a landslide, according to officials.

Assad has gained 88.7% of support in the first vote with multiple candidates held in the country for decades.

Hassan al-Nouri and Maher Hajjar, the other two candidates that stood for election, won 4.3 and 3.2 percent respectively, according to Al Jazeera English.