While no official results have yet been communicated on the Syrian legislative elections on Sunday, the United States denounced, Monday, July 20, a poll “Rigged”. This is the third parliamentary elections since the start in 2011 of a conflict that has claimed more than 380,000 lives and caused the exodus of millions of people, while the power and its pillars are hit by Western sanctions.
The Baath party, in power for half a century and closely linked to the Assad clan, generally wins hands down these legislative elections organized every four years to elect 250 deputies, while the majority of opponents live in exile or in sectors outside the government. control of Damascus.
“Bashar al-Assad tries to present these dubious elections as a success against a so-called Western plot, but in reality it is only the latest in a long series of elections staged by Assad, with no real freedom or choice for the Syrians “, US diplomacy spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus reacted in a statement.
“Syria has not known free and fair elections since Assad’s Baath party came to power” half a century ago, she added, lamenting in particular that millions of Syrians abroad, most of them refugees, were denied the right to vote.
