Four more candidates announced their candidacy for Syria's upcoming June presidential election, state television announced, a poll Assad is expected to win.
Sawsan Omar Haddad, a 51-year-old engineer from the coastal province of Latakia, became the first woman to register as a candidate in Syria's upcoming June 3 presidential election. In a live broadcast from the parliament Sunday, speaker Jihad Laham said Haddad registered her candidacy a day earlier.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry has rejected the criticism, saying the decision to hold presidential elections was a "sovereign one." It warned that "no foreign power will be allowed to intervene" in the process. AP