The Syrian regime is planning to hold municipal elections next September, according to state media. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a legislative decree on Wednesday stating the elections will take place on Sunday 18 September, SANA reported. The vote will be held despite over half of all Syrian citizens now internally displaced or made refugees abroad after fleeing the regime’s violent crackdown on the country’s revolution since 2011. Elections conducted by the Assad regime in Syria have been widely dismissed as a farce by the international community and the Syrian opposition. “The re…