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  • LLUÍS MIQUEL HURTADO

    @llmhurtado

    Istanbul

Updated on Wednesday, 26May2021-01: 59

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Syria celebrates its second presidential elections on Wednesday in the middle of the war.

Who will win?

No one doubts it:

Bashar Asad,

president of Syria since 2000, when he relieved his father Hafez Asad, the leading general of the corrective movement who came to power with a coup in 1970. Bashar had not been chosen;

it was the sudden death of Basel Asad, his brother, which gave command to the ophthalmologist who took the reins promising reforms and won a vicious war.

In the absence of pu

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