Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
has formed a new government less than three months after being re-elected for a third term.
On Wednesday, Assad formed his new government that consists of 11 new ministers, including Hassan al-Nuri, his rival in the latest presidential election.
Nuri has been assigned as the minister of administrative development, while other ministerial posts remained unchanged, including the prime minister as well as foreign and defense ministers.
Assad won 88.7 percent of the vote, or 10,319,723 of 11,634,412 votes cast in the election held on June 3.
He will serve as the country's next president for the coming seven years.