Baath officials in Syria’s Suwayda collect personal identities to vote for Assad
SUWAYDA, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, heads of electoral centers in the western countryside of Suwayda, southern Syria, collected the ID cards of the residents to vote in the elections for the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, three days before the start of the elections.
The presidential elections are scheduled to take place on May 26, amid a great economic and living deterioration in the areas held by the Syrian government.
Mahmoud al-Sabe’, (a pseudonym), a resident of the western countryside of Suwayda, said that a number of the heads of the polling centers in the western countryside of Suwayda, collected dozens of ID cards of the residents to vote for Bashar al-Assad.
“They visited the houses in more than 30 villages and towns in the western countryside to collect the largest number of ID cards,” he told North Press.
The government appoints the heads of polling centers from the members and secretaries of the Baath Party in the region.
Although local and international bodies agree that the election is shame and that the results are previously determined in favor of the current president, but his loyalists are active during the election campaign within the framework of laws and outside of it.
During the past few months, Suwayda and Daraa governorates witnessed statements of rejection of the election and threats by opposition groups to the supervisors of the voting centers in the region.
Recently, the head of the Judicial Subcommittee for Presidential Elections, Farid Akwan, stated that the number of electoral centers in the governorate reached 356 polling centers distributed over the villages and towns of Suwayda.