Bashar al-Assad has been declared as Syrian president

Bashar al-Assad has been declared as Syrian president after winning a third term with 88.7 percent of the votes in the presidential election.

The Speaker of the Parliament Mohammad al-Laham said that according to the unofficial presidential elections' results Assad won the elections with 88.7 percent of the votes and the voter turnout was at 73.42 percent.
EU High Representative Catherine Ashton in a statement said that EU considered the presidential election held in Syria as illegitimate and underlined that the elections undermined the political efforts to find a solution to the horrific conflict.
Ashton said “the presidential election held in Syria on June 3 cannot be considered as a genuinely democratic vote. A flawed electoral law imposed identification requirements that deprived most Syrians living in areas under opposition control of the ability to cast their vote. The law also prevented exiled opposition candidates from standing against President Assad, and blocked access to alternative sources of campaign information".
Ashton who underlined that Assad regime has continued military operations that lead to more than 150,000 deaths, 6.5 million internally displaced persons and 2.5 million refugees added that any elections in Syria should only take place within the framework of a genuine political process agreed by the international community.