Syria said “healthy relations between nations should be based on mutual interests rather than confrontation or hostility”, al-Baath writes.
The regime is attempting to portray elections to its audience as part of an imagined victory narrative, Absi Smaisim writes in Al-Araby al-Jadeed.
Damascus confirms that its main demand for rapprochement with Ankara is the return of all its territory to its control, Athr Press writes.
Activists stress that these elections cannot supplant the legitimate demands of the Syrian people, according to Syria TV.
Abboud, 61, exemplifies what political change means in Assad’s Syria, affecting only marginal figures without political weigh, Walid Barkasiyeh argues in al-Modon.
The opposition denounced a campaign of “rumours and fake news”, Syria TV says.
