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Beirut roads paralyzed by Syrian voters headed to polls
May 28, 2014 08:50 AM (Last updated: May 28, 2014 06:49 PM)
By Ghinwa Obeid, Samya Kullab
The Daily Star

BEIRUT: Thousands of mostly pro-Assad supporters flocked to the Syrian Embassy Wednesday to cast ballots in the presidential elections, causing suffocating traffic jams around Beirut.

The embassy opened its doors in the early hours of the morning when hundreds walked to the only polling station available to vote, with Syrian anthems blaring from cars and buses decorated with photos of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Hezbollah flags.

Some parents took their children along to the embassy. A Syrian child was chanting “our country is with you, our president Assad” while her father held up the Syrian flag. Another elderly woman was reciting a folk lyric poem in praise of Assad.

“I am here to elect President Bashar Assad, he is our president and our leader,” one of the voters said.

“Today is the end of the Arab Spring, this American project,” Mohammad Jamous, a refugee residing in south Lebanon, said as he boarded a bus in Sidon to head to the embassy.

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