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Assad wins Syrian presidential election

Syria’s incumbent leader Bashar al-Assad has been announced as the winner of the country’s presidential election. On Wednesday, Syrian People’s Assembly speaker Jihad al-Laham announced that Assad won 88.7 percent of the vote, or 10,319,723 of 11,634,412 votes cast in Tuesday’s election, the official SANA news agency reported.

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