What future for Syria?
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Souk al-Hamidieh, ahead of the May 26 presidential election, in Damascus, Syria, May 22, 2021. REUTERS - YAMAM AL SHAAR
By: Romain Auzouy
21 mins
Tomorrow, Wednesday (May 26, 2021), the presidential election will be held in Syria.
A vote described as a "masquerade" by the opposition in exile and at the end of which Bashar al-Assad is sure to win a fourth term.
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Ten years after the start of a war that left almost 400,000 dead, what is the situation in Syria today?
Is reconstruction possible?
What initiatives are in place to enable political dialogue?
With our guest
Agnès Levallois
, research supervisor at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS) and vice-president of IREMMO.
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