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Children pose as they celebrate Syrian President Bashar Assad's victory at the main Umayyad square, in Damascus, Syria. Assad has been re-elected for a fourth seven-year term and garnered 13.540.860 votes, or 95.1%. The two other presidential candidates, former state minister Abdallah Salloum Abdallah and Mahmud Merhi, a member of the so-called "tolerated opposition", received 1.5 percent and 3.3 percent of the vote respectively, according to the official results of Wednesday's election.
- Package: Syria Presidential Elections Results
- Author: Mikhail Voskresenskiy
- Credit: Sputnik
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