Syrian President Bashar Assad's landslide election victory means that his civil war foes can no longer call for his departure as a precondition for peace, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday. The leader of the Lebanese group that has sent fighters to back the president, described the vote as a victory for Syria. Assad's foes called the election a charade. 'This election tells the opposition and all regional countries and the world that any political solution in Syria begins and ends with President Bashar Assad,' Nasrallah told supporters via a video link. 'You can no longer put the resignation of the president as a pre-condition.'
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