Headline : Denouncing Sham Elections in Syria

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“It has been 13 years since the Syrian revolution began, and the regime continues to use violence to suppress peaceful, legitimate, popular demands for freedom and democracy,” said Ambassador Wood.

On July 15, the Syrian regime held parliamentary elections. Like the previous three elections held by the Assad government since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the outcome was pre-determined, the vote a bureaucratic exercise meant to impart an illusion of legitimacy and control over the war-torn country, but with not even a nod toward an orderly political transition toward credible, inclusive and non-sectarian governance, as required by UN Security Council Resolution 2254.

“We denounce the July 15 sham parliamentary elections orchestrated by the Syrian regime,” said U.S. Alternative Representative for Special Political Affairs at the U.N., Robert Wood.

“These so-called elections lacked even the pretense of freedom or fairness; they were merely a rubber-stamp on Bashar al-Assad’s continued dictatorship. No country should be fooled by this pathetic exercise; the Syrian people certainly were not.”

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