Almost 90 percent of voters approved Syria’s new constitution brought in after 11 months of anti-regime protests, the interior minister announced on Monday. Mohammed al-Shaar also told a press conference that turnout reached 57.4 percent of illegible voters, with 89.4 percent of the 8.376 million who cast their ballots in Sunday’s referendum saying “yes” to the new constitution.
‘89.4 percent ‘yes’ for new Syria constitution’
