# Assad wins Syrian elections **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics and Social Issues\ **Created:** [May 27, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/assad-wins-syrian-elections/7953 "2021-05-27T19:24:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sabolina](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/sabolina/32/18_2.png) [@sabolina](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/sabolina)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/assad-wins-syrian-elections/7953/1 "2021-05-27T19:24:08Z")
> **[Syria’s Assad wins 4th term with 95% of vote, in election the West calls...](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syrias-president-bashar-al-assad-wins-fourth-term-office-with-951-votes-live-2021-05-27/)** > > Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1% of the votes in an election that will extend his rule over a country ruined by war but which opponents and the West say was marked by fraud. ---
**Author:** ![thatoneguy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/thatoneguy/32/28536_2.png) [@thatoneguy](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/thatoneguy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/assad-wins-syrian-elections/7953/2 "2021-05-27T20:52:13Z")
Big surprise. Also, it’s funny how the UN still thinks its election supervision would somehow be welcome in Syria. ---
**Author:** ![sabolina](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/sabolina/32/18_2.png) [@sabolina](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/sabolina)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/assad-wins-syrian-elections/7953/3 "2021-05-27T21:36:26Z")
they were welcomed. Syria had invited international election observers from Russia, China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador and Armenia. ---
**Author:** ![thatoneguy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/thatoneguy/32/28536_2.png) [@thatoneguy](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/thatoneguy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/assad-wins-syrian-elections/7953/4 "2021-05-27T22:45:41Z")
Maybe so but those are Syrian allies. I guess more accurately, Assad allies. ---
**Author:** ![sabolina](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/sabolina/32/18_2.png) [@sabolina](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/sabolina)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/assad-wins-syrian-elections/7953/5 "2021-05-27T23:10:06Z")
thats right. Why would you invite countries that were trying to kill him? ---
**Author:** ![mrmhead](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/mrmhead/32/19_2.png) [@mrmhead](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/mrmhead)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/assad-wins-syrian-elections/7953/6 "2021-05-28T13:38:34Z")
Assad got 95% of the vote - I bet Trump is jealous ---
**Author:** ![sabolina](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/sabolina/32/18_2.png) [@sabolina](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/sabolina)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/assad-wins-syrian-elections/7953/7 "2021-05-29T07:22:36Z")
Lots of celebrations in Syria   ---
**Author:** ![thatoneguy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/thatoneguy/32/28536_2.png) [@thatoneguy](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/thatoneguy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/assad-wins-syrian-elections/7953/8 "2021-05-30T22:04:09Z")
Bashar seems like a popular guy despite his flaws. He might be the best Syria has got. Or the “least worst”. ---
**Author:** ![sabolina](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/sabolina/32/18_2.png) [@sabolina](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/sabolina)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/assad-wins-syrian-elections/7953/9 "2021-05-30T23:45:26Z")
yes really popular. He and his wife even stayed at Queen Elizabeths palace as guest of mother England ---
**Author:** ![morgankane01](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/morgankane01/32/28536_2.png) [@morgankane01](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/morgankane01)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/assad-wins-syrian-elections/7953/10 "2021-05-31T02:01:11Z")
El Assad is the son of a bloody dictator and a bloody dictator himself. When people revolted, he was helped by Russia. The West countries did not help the pro democracy people who were crushed and gave place to the Islamic state. But all these events come directly from Iraqi invasion by USA when Bush was president. ---
**Author:** ![sabolina](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/sabolina/32/18_2.png) [@sabolina](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/sabolina)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/assad-wins-syrian-elections/7953/11 "2021-05-31T02:31:20Z")
Syria is a secular State. The West funded the Islamic lunatic terrorists to overthrow him. Now the US has issued sanctions on Syria to stop its rebuild as punishment for voting for Assad. Nice people the USA ---
**Author:** ![thatoneguy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/thatoneguy/32/28536_2.png) [@thatoneguy](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/thatoneguy)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/assad-wins-syrian-elections/7953/12 "2021-05-31T22:40:54Z")
Assad has done some bad things but overall he and his father have done alright for their country. Syria was one of the better Mideast nations before the war — moderate and quite secular for the region. It sure as hell isn’t going be that way with Assad’s adversaries in control. However the Assad regime is a big threat to Israel and that’s why the US has tried to remove it from power.