Assad re-elected Syrian President with '95% of votes'
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected with 95.1% of the votes cast, the parliamentary speaker has announced, following an election criticised by the opposition and Western nations.
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% and 3.3% of the vote respectively, according to the official results of yesterday's election.