From Nidal: "I am sure you already know that, but some of you readers might have forgotten that in 2007, the official number of "citizens eligible for voting" was 11.97 millions. This summer, the number has officially jumped to 15.85 millions. This seems to be the irrefutable proof that Syria is now 32% more democratic than in 2007…
Here are the sources:
http://seenthis.net/messages/263873
2014: _Assad wins presidential election with 88.7% of the vote_
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/assad-wins-presidential-election-887-vote
❝A spokesman for the court had said 11.63 million Syrians voted in Tuesday's election inside the country and in an earlier round of voting outside Syria for refugees and expatriates. There were 15.85 million eligible voters in total, he said.❞
2007: _President al-Assad gets 97.62 Percent in the Referendum on a New Constitutional Term_
http://www.sana.sy/eng/141/2007/05/29/120564.htm
❝He indicated that the percentage of the participating eligible voters
reached 95.86 percent i.e. 11.472.157 citizens out of the overall number of citizens eligible for voting which is 11.967.611 citizens whose names were announced in the referendum records.❞
(Of course, you can quote or use this.)"
Here are the sources:
http://seenthis.net/messages/263873
2014: _Assad wins presidential election with 88.7% of the vote_
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/assad-wins-presidential-election-887-vote
❝A spokesman for the court had said 11.63 million Syrians voted in Tuesday's election inside the country and in an earlier round of voting outside Syria for refugees and expatriates. There were 15.85 million eligible voters in total, he said.❞
2007: _President al-Assad gets 97.62 Percent in the Referendum on a New Constitutional Term_
http://www.sana.sy/eng/141/2007/05/29/120564.htm
❝He indicated that the percentage of the participating eligible voters
reached 95.86 percent i.e. 11.472.157 citizens out of the overall number of citizens eligible for voting which is 11.967.611 citizens whose names were announced in the referendum records.❞
(Of course, you can quote or use this.)"
