Syria's sham election guarantees 1 thing — Bashar Assad will win | DW News

Despite the theatrics, the winner of Syria's presidential election on Wednesday will come as no surprise. President Bashar Assad is set to be reelected for a fourth seven-year term.

A record 51 applicants put their name forward for the top job, but the country's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled only three candidates were eligible to run for president: former deputy cabinet minister Abdullah Salloum Adbullah, Mahmoud Ahmed Marei, the head of a small, government-approved opposition party, and Bashar Assad, who has ruled the country since the death of his father in 2000.

The international community has touted Wednesday's election as a farce, as the country has so-far failed to implement the UNs 2015 resolution which sought to bring peace to the country following the Arab Spring which swept across the region and with that free and fair elections held under UN supervision.

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