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Tehran, Jun 18 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Abedin Taherkenareh) Election day is underway in Iran Friday with lower turnout than in previous presidential elections, while a majority of voters has expresssed support for ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi.FOOTAGE OF THE ELECTIONS
Idlib (Syria), May 26 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Yahya Nemah) Hundreds of people demonstrated on Wednesday in the opposition-controlled areas of northwestern Syria against the presidential elections organized by the Government of Damascus, also rejected by the authorities of the Kurdish region in the northeast of the country.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTESTS IN IDLIB, SYRIASOUNDBITES OF THE PROTESTANT WITH THE SYRIAN FLAG AS A CAPETranslation: "We are here to uncover the pantomime of elections that the regime has called, it has even brought people from outside Syria to participate in this theater and deceive the international community with the holding of the elections. The whole process is flawed and false 14 million Syrians are outside Syria, where are those elections? In northern Syria there are 4 million Syrians in refugee camps, all these people reject the regime of the Assad family, they reject this dictatorial regime, the regime that he uses chemical weapons. From here we send the message to the regime that 4 million people do not want Bachar as president. From here we send a message to the international community: Syria belongs to the people and not to the Assad family. "SOUNDBITES OF THE PROTESTANT WITH SUNGLASSES ON THE HEADTranslation: "We are here today to send a message to the whole world and to the regime in particular and we say that our only and last word is that there is nothing legal in these elections, in this little theater. We also tell you that minds are being laughed at Where are the elections, where is transparency, where is freedom of expression and the right to vote? People are being forced to vote in areas controlled by the regime and threatened with the use of force or prison if they do not agree We are here as strong as the mountains and we will not give up our principles which are freedom forever and down with Assad.SOUNDBITES OF THE PROTESTANT WITH A SYRIAN FLAG CAPTranslation: "We are here to say that we are against these elections, the place of Bashar al Assad is not power, he would have to be in a court being tried as a war criminal, a murderer of children, like the one who has made the people have to leave their lands and be taken prisoner. We would like to know on the basis of what is running again as a candidate, since we consider that he is not psychologically stable and is obsessed with blood and the dead. "
Damascus, May 26 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Youssef Badawi) Syria held on Wednesday controversial presidential elections, rejected by the UN and a large part of the international community, only in the areas controlled by President Bachar al Asad, who after years of armed conflict seeks to establish himself again at the head of the country.FOOTAGE OF VOTING IN DAMASCUS AND OF THE ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN.
Damascus, May 25 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Youssef Badawi) Over 18 million Syrians are eligible to vote in Wednesday’s presidential elections, which are widely-expected to extend Bashar al-Assad’s time in power. FOOTAGE OF THE STREETS OF DAMASCUS, SYRIA "Se han habilitado 12.102 colegios electorales en todas las ciudades y regiones del país, mientras que el número de ciudadanos con derecho a derecho a votar dentro y fuera del país es de 18.107.109 personas", anunció hoy en una rueda de prensa en Damasco el ministro de Interior, Mohamad al Rahmoun.De acuerdo con Al Rahmoun, la cifra incluye también a los sirios residentes en el exterior, que pudieron depositar su voto en algunas embajadas el pasado jueves, así como a los votantes en las zonas del país que escapan al control de Damasco después de una década de conflicto.Sin embargo, la autoproclamada región autónoma del noreste de Siria, gobernada de facto por los kurdos, se ha desvinculado completamente de los comicios.Tampoco está previsto que participe la población del noroeste del país, controlado por grupos armados opositores al Gobierno, incluido el Organismo de Liberación del Levante, en el que se encuentra la exfilial siria de la red Al Qaeda.El ministro de Interior sirio precisó que se han completado todos los preparativos logísticos y que cada centro de votación cuenta ya con lo necesario, incluidos dispositivos para la detección de tarjetas de votante "falsificadas"."Antes de iniciarse la votación, el comité del centro electoral abre las urnas para los miembros del comité y los representantes de los candidatos para asegurarse de que estén vacías. Luego se cierran y no se pueden abrir hasta que comience el escrutinio", explicó a Efe una miembro del Comité Judicial Supremo para las Elecciones, Heba Seif al Din.Cada votante deberá presentar su carné de identidad o documento militar y recibirá un sobre "firmado y sellado por el jefe del comité del centro electoral", tras lo que podrá acceder a una sala privada para depositar su papeleta, agregó la mujer.Este martes es la jornada de reflexión y silencio previa a los comicios, durante la que los candidatos no podrán llevar a cabo ningún acto de campaña.A estos comicios, rechazados por la oposición en el exterior, la ONU y una serie de países, concurren el actual presidente sirio, el exviceministro de Asuntos Parlamentarios Abdulá Salloum Abdulá y el líder de la oposición interna tolerada en Siria Mahmud Marai.Se espera que Al Asad, en el poder desde la muerte de su padre en 2000, salga reelegido.En las últimas elecciones de 2014, cuando por primera vez en medio siglo se presentó a los comicios más de un candidato tras enmendar la Constitución a raíz de las protestas iniciadas en 2011, Al Asad arrasó con el 88,7 % de los votos.IMÁGENES DE LA CAMPAÑA DEL ACTUAL MANDATARIO, BACHAR AL ASAD, EN DAMASCO.
Damascus (Syria), May 22 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Youssef Badawi) Syrian presidential candidate Mahmud Marai, from the internal opposition tolerated by Damascus, affirms in an interview with EFE that he is working to open a dialogue between opponents, including exiled ones, and the Government of Bashar al Assad, mediated by its great ally, Russia.FOOTAGE OF THE INTERVIEW WITH SYRIAN PRESIDENT CANDIDATE MAHMUD MARAITRANSLATION: 1. "I represent the Front, the Syrian Democratic Opposition Front, which is made up of six political forces, and I represent a front of the Syrian people or the Syrian opposition, both internal and external."2. "Sure, I have contact with the internal national opposition, as well as the external opposition, and there are several important figures from Cairo, Moscow platforms and the coalition who contacted me and supported my electoral program and are ready to be part of a Syrian-Syrian national dialogue conference to be held in Damascus because this is the way out and I am working on this plan for a long time, and we are ready to hold a SyriaN national dialogue conference in Damascus with the presence of Syrian authority and internal and external opposition under international or regional supervision, mediated by Russia that would guarantee the back and forth of Syrian opponents from outside Damascus, we are working on this important step. " 3. "I believe that every Syrian citizen has the right to run for president; in the current constitution neither Christians nor women have the right to stand for election, we want to build a state of equal citizenship that allows any Syrian citizen to comply with the conditions to be presented, of Syrian parents, who do not have dual nationality, not married to a foreigner ... etc. and they are international conditions ... but who is not a Christian or a woman ... well no ". 4. "There are no objections to normalization even with Qatar, in politics there are no permanent enmities or lasting friendships, I see the interest of the Syrian people and the Syrian State in normalizing relations, and at the same time, it is necessary for Syria to return to occupy its seat in the Arab League, but with objectivity, and sovereignty, I cannot accept that it occupies this seat, the National Council, the Coalition, the Higher Constitutional Commission, this platform or the other ... there is a Syrian state, and so the sovereignty is indivisible. "
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