Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad said the Syrian presidential
election in 2021 would be open to anybody who wants to run and that there would be numerous challengers for the presidency.
Assad, who made the comment in an interview broadcast on Monday on
Russian state-funded television channel RT, faced two challengers at the 2014 election which he won by a landslide, but which his opponents dismissed as a charade.
There are going to be numerous nominees," Assad said.