Bashar al-Assad Elected President of Syria

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Tuesday, July 11, 2000, updated at 17:20(GMT+8)

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Bashar al-Assad Elected President of Syria

Bashar al-Assad has been elected president of Syria with 97.99 percent of the votes in a nationwide referendum, Interior Minister Mohammad Harba announced Tuesday.

Bashar Assad is expected to be inaugurated on July 17 to succeed his father Hafez al-Assad who died of a heart attack on June 10.

Bashar is the only candidate in a referendum held on Monday.


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	Bashar al-Assad has been elected president of Syria with 97.99 percent of the votes in a nationwide referendum, Interior Minister Mohammad Harba announced Tuesday.




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