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Syria to announce date of presidential vote next week

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15-04-2014 | 07:44

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Al-Watan newspaper reported on Thursday that Speaker of Syria's parliament will announce next week the date of the Syrian presidential elections, expected to be held in June despite the ongoing conflict.

The daily said that Mohamed Jihad Lahham would make the announcement next week, but gave no further details on the date for the vote.

Syrian President Bashar Assad, who succeeded his father Hafez in the post in 2000, will end his seven-year term on July 17.

In the past, the country's president had been chosen by referendum, but a new constitution passed in 2012 mandates presidential elections for the first time.

According to the new constitution, the date for presidential elections must be announced between 60 and 90 days prior to the standing president's term ends.

It remains unclear how a presidential vote can be held, with ongoing violence between regime troop and opposition fighters, widespread violence and nearly half the population displaced.

More than 150,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict broke out in March 2011, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group.

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