Thursday, April 24, 2014

Assad support growing ahead of presidential election: Analyst


Popular support for the incumbent Syrian government is increasing in the run-up to the country’s presidential election, a political analyst tells Press TV.

“The Syrian government has broad support, even greater support than was the case perhaps a year or two ago in light of all that has happened,” said Mark Weber, a director of the Institute for Historical Review from California, in a Tuesday interview.

The Syrian nation is concerned that in the absence of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the “very divided, fractious and fanatic” militants would take power, the analyst added.