(Xinhua/Qin Haishi)

(VOV)-Syria announced yesterday/ on Monday the result of Sunday’s referendum on its new proposed constitution. According to the government, more than 89 percent of the voters supported the new charter. The result was met with skepticism by the Syrian opposition, which dismissed it as "unreal and totally fabricated." Under the new draft constitution, President Bashar al-Assad will end his seceond seven-year term in 2014 at the latest. The document also guarantees Syrian citizens more freedom, ends the monopoly of power of Assad's Baath Party, and sets a timetable for multi-party elections. Syrian newspapers said the referendum results reflect the determination of the Syrian people to implement reform but the opposition said the new constitution does not include all the needed changes.