Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has won the Syrian presidential elections with a total of 95.1% of the valid votes.

Speaker of the Syrian Assembly People’s Assembly Hammouda Sabbagh announced on Thursday the winning of Dr. Bashar Al-Assad with the post of President of the Syrian Arab Republic, gaining 13,540,860 votes.

The Speaker went on to say that the second candidate to the Post of President, Mahmoud Marei gained 470.276 votes with 3.3% out of the voters, while Abdallah Salloum Abdallah gained 213.968 votes with 1.5 % out of the correct voters.

Sabbagh added that the number of voters who have the right to cast their votes inside and outside Syria reached 18,107,109, while the number of those who cast their votes inside and outside the country reached 14.239.140 with 78.64%.

“Upon that, and according to article 86 of the constitution and item /B/ of article 79 of the general election law, and in light of the fact that Mr. Bashar al-Assad gained the majority of votes with 95.1%, I have the pleasure to announce the winning of Dr. Bashar al-Assad with the post of president of the Syrian Arab Republic,” he added.

Reacting to the win, Assad issued a statement through his campaign, thanking Syrians "for their high sense of nationalism and their notable participation" in the election.

"Thank you to all Syrians for their high sense of nationalism and their notable participation.... for the future of Syria's children and its youth let's start from tomorrow our campaign of work to build hope and build Syria," he wrote.

Assad has maintained his presidency in Syria since 2000.