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Four new candidates running for Syria's presidential elections

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29-04-2014 | 08:29

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Syria's parliament speaker said on Tuesday that four new candidates submitted applications to run for Syria's presidential elections scheduled for next month.

Mohamed al-Lahham announced the names of the four new candidates, among them a woman and a Christian.

They are Ali Wanous, Azza Mohamed Al-Hallaq, Talea Salah Nasser and Samih Mikhael Moussa.

The new candidates bring the number of people running for the elections to 11, including Assad, who announced his candidacy on Monday.

Hallaq's application brings the number of women competing in the bid to two.

Syria's constitution requires that candidates for the presidency be Muslim, but a source in the constitutional court confirmed that Moussa is Christian.

The elections, Syria's first multi-candidate presidential vote are scheduled for June 3.

But with a brutal civil war ongoing in the country and large Syrian territories beyond the control of the government, it remains unclear how the vote will be organized.

Assad, who became president after his father Hafez died in 2000, is widely expected to win another seven-year term.

Electoral rules prevent anyone who has lived outside Syria in the past 10 years from running, excluding most opposition figures, who live in exile.

More than 150,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict, which started when protests against Assad's rule erupted in March 2011, inspired by other Arab uprisings.

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