Mohamed Hassanein Khaddam, the acting Syrian Ambassador to Japan, announced that polling stations were opened for the members of the Syrian community in the country to cast a ballot in the presidential election today.
It is scheduled that the Syrians who abide in foreign countries can vote in the presidential election today, Thursday.
Polling stations are located in the Syrian embassies in the countries that green-lighted in advance of the election there.
Syrians are going to vote in Australia, Japan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Oman, Iran, Armenia, Abu Dhabi, and Lebanon over the last few hours.
Syrian voters in Lebanon head for the embassy of their country in Beirut early in the morning amid intensifies security measurements taken by the Lebanese army and the Internal Security Forces.
Checkpoints were installed at entrances of the Syrian Embassy.
The voting will continue until 7 P.M.
Ali Abul Karim, Syria’s Ambassador to Lebanon, inspected this morning procedure of voting in the Syrian embassy.
He said that dozens of Syrian citizens came to vote
However, Ayman Susan, an assistant of Syria’s Foreign Minister, said that the voting in the presidential election will run in most countries of the world but both Turkey and Germany have briefed Damascus on their refusal of voting Syrian presidential election there.
On the other hand, voting in that election will take place inside Syria on May 26.
The sitting President Bashar al-Assad, Mahmoud Mar’ae, a lawyer, and Abdullah Salloum Salloum, are the three candidates compete in the current Syrian presidential election.
President al-Assad launched his electoral campaign last Saturday under the slogan of “Hope for Work 2021.”
A number of official websites and pages of Syrian ministries re-published contents of the campaign of President al Assad.
Observers hope that election leads to find a political solution for the Syrian dilemma that continued for ten years with any light at the end of the tunnel.
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