No, don't get into the illusion by Assad supporters that Syria has free democratic elections. These people don't know how a real democracy works, and if Assad falls from power and a new president that is outside of the Assad family is installed, these people will scream and go on a mob rage.

All of Syria's presidential elections are "popular referendums". Basically, the rubber-stamp Syrian Parliament nominates him for the ballot paper. There is no such thing as an "opposition candidate" or anything similar to that. Once they nominate him for the ballot paper, the Syrian people will then vote either yes or no on the Parliament's nomination. This is not a typical democratic way on conducting elections, because first of all, these elections can get easily manipulated, as there is no such thing as "the opposition", and it is basically a way to bar everyone except the Assad family who wanted to become President of Syria. Here are the results of Syria's so-called presidential elections:

Syrian Presidential Results 2007

Yes11,199,44597.62No19,6530.17Invalid253,0592.21Total(turnout 95.86%)

(11,967,611 eligible)11,472,157100.0

Syrian Presidential Results 2000

Bashar al-Assad8,689,87199.7Against22,4390.3Invalid/blank votes219,313-Total8,931,623100

Any elections that has 99.9% of the vote is certainly not a real election. These are the same elections that Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, North Korea, Saddam's Iraq, etc...that they conduct.