Syria elections  

In pictures: Syria elections

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  Protestors who oppose Syrian President Bashar Assad carry a banner during a demonstration at Kafr Nabil town in Idlib province, northern Syria

  AP

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  A banner with a picture of Syrian President Bashar Assad with a slogan reading in Arabic, " we build it together" hangs on a destroyed building in the Homs neighborhood of Khaldiyeh

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  Syrian Prime Minister Wael Halqi speaking to media after he casted his ballot in the presidential elections at a polling station in Damascus

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  Syrian defence minister Fahd Jassem al-Freij (C) casting his ballot in the presidential elections at a polling station in Damascus

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  Employees emptying the poll boxes following to the closure of polls at midnight local time in Damascus

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  Syrian students, one wearing a T-shirt bearing a portrait of President Bashar al-Assad, prepare to cast their votes in the country's presidential elections at a polling station in the Baath University of Homs, north of Damascus

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  A Syrian student shows her ink-stained thumb after casting her vote in the country's presidential elections at a polling station in the Baath University of Homs, north of Damascus

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  A Syrian woman rides in a car painted in the colors of the Syrian flag with President Bashar Assad's portrait in Damascus

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  A man casts his ballot in Damascus

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  Supporters of of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad celebrate in front of a polling centre in Damascus

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  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad casts his vote at a polling station in Maliki, a residential area in the centre of the capital Damascus

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  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (L) and his wife Asma al-Assad (R) casting their votes in the presidential elections at martyr Na'em Ma'asarani School in al-Malki neighborhood in Damascus

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  An old trains station is decorated with posters showing President Bashar Assad in Damascus

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  A Syrian man casts his ballot at a polling site in the Um-Al Zinnar church in the Old City in Homs

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  A ballot paper bearing the portraits of the three presidential candidates (LtoR) Maher Abdel Hafiz Hajjar, President Bashar al-Assad and Hassan Abdallah al-Nuri displayed at Bassel al-Assad school turned into a polling station for the presidential election in central Damascus

  AFP

• 16/20 Syria elections

  Syrians walk past campaign posters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad displayed on a stall at a market in the capital Damascus

  AFP

• 17/20 Syria elections

  Syrian men pretend they are casting their votes during a mock election calling for the "criminal" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the stripped of his Syrian nationality in the mostly rebel-held city of Aleppo

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  Supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad hold his portraits and wave Syrian flags during a demonstration in support of his candidacy for presidential election in the costal city of Tartous

  AP

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  A Syrian man shows a ballot paper bearing the portraits of the three presidential candidates (LtoR): Maher Abdel Hafiz Hajjar, Bashar al-Assad and Hassan Abdallah al-Nuri

  AFP

• 20/20 Syria elections

  An electoral worker holds a voting card at a polling center in Damascus

  EPA