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al-Assad</span></a></span></span></td> </tr></tbody></table></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="padding:0.3em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad#Early_life" title="Bashar al-Assad">Early life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Assad_family" title="Al-Assad family">Family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad#Public_and_personal_life" title="Bashar al-Assad">Personal life</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/President_of_Syria" title="President of Syria">President of Syria</a></b></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li>Secretary-General of the <a href="/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_%E2%80%93_Syria_Region" title="Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region">Syrian Ba'ath Party</a> (2000–)<br /></li> <li>Marshal, <a href="/wiki/Syrian_Armed_Forces" title="Syrian Armed Forces">Syrian Armed Forces</a> (1988–)</li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad#Presidency" title="Bashar al-Assad">Presidency</a></b></li></ul> <ul><li><a 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href="/wiki/Second_Hussein_Arnous_government" title="Second Hussein Arnous government">Arnous II</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><b>Elections</b></li></ul> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Syrian_presidential_election" title="2007 Syrian presidential election">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Syrian_presidential_election" title="2014 Syrian presidential election">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Syrian_presidential_election" title="2021 Syrian presidential election">2021</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seal_of_the_President_of_Syria.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Seal_of_the_President_of_Syria.svg/70px-Seal_of_the_President_of_Syria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="70" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Seal_of_the_President_of_Syria.svg/105px-Seal_of_the_President_of_Syria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Seal_of_the_President_of_Syria.svg/140px-Seal_of_the_President_of_Syria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="443" data-file-height="424" /></a></span></li></ul> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bashar_al-Assad" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Bashar al-Assad"><b>Media gallery</b></a></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar" style="text-align:center;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Bashar_al-Assad_series" title="Template:Bashar al-Assad series"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Bashar_al-Assad_series" title="Template talk:Bashar al-Assad series"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Bashar_al-Assad_series" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Bashar al-Assad series"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>A <b>presidential referendum</b> was held in <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> on 10 July 2000,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> following the death of President <a href="/wiki/Hafez_al-Assad" title="Hafez al-Assad">Hafez al-Assad</a>. The candidate, chosen by the parliament, was his son, <a href="/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" title="Bashar al-Assad">Bashar al-Assad</a>, with voters then asked to approve or reject his candidacy. A reported 99.7% of voters voted in favour, with a turnout of 94.6%.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2000_Syrian_presidential_election&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the death of President Hafez al-Assad on June 10, the Syrian parliament voted to amend the Constitution to lower the minimum age for presidential candidates from 40 to 34, Bashar al-Assad's age at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Results">Results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2000_Syrian_presidential_election&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"><caption></caption><tbody><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2">Candidate</th><th scope="col">Party</th><th scope="col">Votes</th><th scope="col">%</th></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#017B48"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" title="Bashar al-Assad">Bashar al-Assad</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_%E2%80%93_Syria_Region" title="Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region">Ba'ath Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">8,689,871</td><td style="text-align:right">99.74</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">Against</td><td style="text-align:right">22,439</td><td style="text-align:right">0.26</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="font-weight:bold"><td colspan="3">Total</td><td style="text-align:right">8,712,310</td><td style="text-align:right">100.00</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom"><td colspan="5" style="color:black;background:#eaecf0"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="3" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Valid votes</th><td>8,712,310</td><td>97.54</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="3" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Invalid/blank votes</th><td>219,313</td><td>2.46</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="font-weight:bold;text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="3" style="text-align:left;background:inherit;color:inherit">Total votes</th><td>8,931,623</td><td>100.00</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="3" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Registered voters/turnout</th><td>9,446,054</td><td>94.55</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><td colspan="5" style="text-align:left">Source: Nohlen <i>et al.</i></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2000_Syrian_presidential_election&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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