Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said Western criticism of Wednesday’s presidential election has “zero value” as he cast his ballot in a Damascus suburb, Al Arabiya reports.
Commenting on US and EU criticism branding the vote “neither free nor fair,” Assad said: “Your opinions have zero value”, an AFP journalist reported.
Voting is being held only in government-controlled areas and the US and the European Union said Tuesday the election was “neither free nor fair.”
