FILE PHOTO: Syria's President Bashar al-Assad addresses the new members of parliament in Damascus, Syria in this handout released by SANA on August 12, 2020. SANA/Handout via REUTERS
DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syria's higher constitutional court on Monday approved President Bashar al-Assad's application to run in a May 26 presidential election that he is all but certain to win.
The court cleared two other candidates, Abdallah Saloum Abdallah and Mahmoud Ahmed Marei though Assad's run is almost guaranteed to give him a fourth term, extending his tenure well past two decades.
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