Amid continuing protest and a boycott by the opposition human right group and other activist organizations, the Syrian government held a referendum on a new constitution today.
This new text calls for a multi-party parliamentary election within three months, leaves huge powers in the hands of President Bashar al-Assad.
Polling of Syrians came in the face of deadly violence that Washington said made the exercise “laughable.”
But the question is that how the ballot can prove to be convincing under a campaign to crush the protests. And it is expected that new text framed by 29 officials’ committee would drop the highly controversial Article 8 in the existing charter, which makes Mr Assad’s Baath party “the head of state and society” since they seized power in a 1963 coup.