{"id":34158,"date":"2021-07-18T02:52:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T17:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/17\/syrias-president-assad-sworn-in-for-fourth-term-with-95-of-vote"},"modified":"2021-07-18T02:52:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T17:52:09","slug":"syrias-president-assad-sworn-in-for-fourth-term-with-95-of-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34158","title":{"rendered":"Syria\u2019s President Assad sworn in for fourth term with 95% of vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inauguration follows election dismissed by US, UK and other countries as \u2018neither free nor fair\u2019<\/p>\n<p>President Bashar al-Assad took the oath of office for a fourth term in war-ravaged Syria on Saturday, after officially winning 95% of the vote in an election dismissed abroad.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second presidential poll since the start of a decade-long civil war that has killed almost half a million people and battered the country\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/17\/syrias-president-assad-sworn-in-for-fourth-term-with-95-of-vote\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inauguration follows election dismissed by US, UK and other countries as \u2018neither free nor fair\u2019President Bashar al-Assad took the oath of office for a fourth term in war-ravaged Syria on Saturday, after officially winning 95% of the vote in an electio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2053,50,212,1014,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bashar-al-assad","category-china","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-syria","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34159,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34158\/revisions\/34159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}