Presiden Syria Bashar al-Assad (dariTengah) dan isterinya Asma al-Assad (dariKanan) mengundi di tempat mengundi di dalam Maliki, sebuah kawasan kediaman di tengah Damsyik ibu negara, dalam pilihan raya presiden di negara ini pada 3 Jun 2014 (Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (C) and his wife Asma al-Assad (R) casting their votes at a polling station in Maliki, a residential area in the centre of the capital Damascus, in the country's presidential elections on June 3, 2014 (AFP Photo/HO)
SrikandiTV - Bashar Assad telah memenangi kemenangan besar di dalam pungutan suara presiden Syria dengan 88.7 peratus undi. Ini akan menjamin dia jangka 7 tahun yang ke-3 di pejabat di tengah-tengah perang saudara, yang berpunca daripada protes terhadap pemerintahannya.
"Saya akui kemenangan Dr Bashar Hafez Assad sebagai Presiden Republik Arab Syria dengan majoriti mutlak bagi undi yang dibuang dalam pilihan raya," kata penceramah parlimen Mohammad Laham dalam ucapan televisyen dari pejabatnya di Parlimen Syria.
Sebanyak 10.2 juta rakyat telah memilih Assad. Yang keluar mengundi adalah seban-yak 73,42 % peratus. Tiada pelanggaran telah dilaporkan, Jawatankuasa Kehakiman Tinggi Syria Pilihan Raya berkata seperti yang dipetik oleh agensi berita SANA.
Pegawai Syria berkata keputusan itu jelas membuktikan kempen 3 tahun Assad ter-hadap perjuangan mereka dalam menyingkirkan beliau.
Ini adalah multi- calon pilihan raya presiden yang pertama di Syria selama hampir 50 tahun. 2 calon bagi jawatan tertinggi ialah Hassan Abdullah Nouri, daripada Inisiatif Kebangsaan Pentadbiran dan Perubahan di Syria, dan Anuar Abd Al- Hafiz Hajjar, yang sebelum ini dari Will Parti Rakyat.
Walaupun angka-angka keluar mengundi yang tinggi, penduduk di beberapa kawasan di utara dan timur negara telah ditegah untuk anda mengundi oleh pasukan pem-berontak.
Konflik di Syria telah pun membunuh 160,000 orang dan mewujudkan hampir 3 juta pelarian, dan juga menyesarkan lebih ramai orang di dalam Syria.
Tetapi manakala kumpulan pembangkang dalam Syria dan kebanyakan negara di Barat telah mengecam pilihan raya sebagai palsu, ramai orang Syria menyokong Presiden Assad dan melihat dia sebagai satu-satunya pilihan untuk kembali kestabilan kepada negara.
"Ini adalah tugas kami, kita tidak boleh membenarkan orang ramai dari luar negara untuk membuat keputusan untuk kami. Tanggungjawab kita adalah untuk mengundi - atau untuk melindungi negara kami," Usam Hammami, seorang penduduk di ibu negara Damsyik, memberitahu RT Maria Finoshina.
Rusia dan Iran kedua-dua disokong pilihan raya dan Assad sendiri telah berkata baha-wa ia adalah sebahagian daripada usahanya untuk memenuhi permintaan pembang-kang.
Bashar Assad wins Syria presidential election
with 88.7% of vote . . .
Bashar Assad has won a landslide victory in the Syrian presidential poll with 88.7 percent of the vote. This will secure him a third seven-year term in office amidst a bloody civil war, which stemmed from protests against his rule.
"I declare the victory of Dr Bashar Hafez Assad as president of the Syrian Arab Republic with an absolute majority of the votes cast in the election," parliament speaker Mohammad Laham said in a televised address from his office in the Syrian parliament.
A total of 10.2 million people voted for Assad. The voter turnout stood at 73.42 percent. No violations have been reported, Syria’s Higher Judicial Committee for Elections said as quoted by SANA news agency.
Syrian officials said the result was a vindication of Assad’s three-year campaign against those fighting to get rid of him.
This was the first multi-candidate presidential election in Syria for almost 50 years. The other two candidates for the top post were Hassan Abdullah Nouri, from the National Initiative for Administration and Change in Syria, and Maher Abd Al-Hafiz Hajjar, formerly from the People's Will Party.
Despite the high turnout figures, residents of some areas in the country’s north and east were obstructed from voting by rebel forces.
The conflict in Syria has already killed 160,000 people and created nearly 3 million refugees, as well as displacing more people inside Syria.
But while opposition groups inside Syria and most countries in the West have denounced the election as a sham, many Syrians are supporting President Assad and see him as the only option to return stability to the country.
“This is our duty, we can’t allow people from outside the country to decide for us. Our duty is to vote – or order to protect our country,” Usam Hammami, a resident in the capital Damascus, told RT’s Maria Finoshina.
Russia and Iran both supported the election and Assad himself has said that it is part of his efforts to meet the opposition’s demands.
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