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Although the court approved two more candidates, there is in fact no doubt that Assad will remain president for a fourth term, more than two decades.
Assad has been president since 2000, when he replaced his father in the head of state, who came to power in 1970 through a coup d’état.
Although a civil war has been raging in Syria since 2011, the Assad government has managed to regain control of most of the country’s territory.
Only those who have lived in Syria for at least the last ten years without interruption are allowed to stand for election, and thus opposition leaders in exile are barred from running.
In Syria itself, however, many of the activists who have expressed doubts about the legitimacy of the elections have been arrested by the authorities.
The US and opposition have called the election a farce aimed at strengthening Assad’s authoritarian regime.
Senior UN officials have also acknowledged that the elections run counter to Security Council resolutions calling for a political process to put an end to the civil war, a new constitution and elections under UN auspices that meet “the highest standards of transparency and accountability”.
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