Syria's Political Struggle: Spring 2012
June 7, 2012![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/Syrians%20Vote%202.jpg?itok=DLL71VCj)
President Bashar al-Assad’s regime held parliamentary elections in early May in an effort to create a narrative of democratic transition and to offer fence-sitters the belief that peaceful reform was possible.