
Assad would receive 90 percent of the vote if an election took place at the
moment based on recent intelligence gathered, Black told Sputnik.
"I have had people that I worked very closely with who gather intelligence from
Syria… and several interesting things come out of the reports I’ve received
back,” Black noted. "Right now I would say if you could hold an election in
Syria… President Assad would probably be reelected with 90% of the vote and
that’s including the terrorist occupied areas.”
The senator said the intelligence also revealed that "people are totally
supportive of President Assad and the first lady Asma Assad, who is I think one
of the great first ladies of the world.”
"Totally self-sacrificing people,” the senator added. "Unlike many leaders of
the world they are not greedy, they are not hoarding national wealth, they are
sacrificing themselves for the future of their nation. So the people love them.”
"There is almost total unity of the religions. The Christians, the Alawites, the
Sunnis, the Shiites, the Druze, they’re all fighting together to retain Syria,”
he explained.
Source: Sputnik