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Aliyev was ‘not meaningfully challenged,’ and because of limitations on independent media, civil society and other political parties, the contest was ‘devoid of genuine pluralism,’ expert says

Azerbaijanis are voting in an election almost certain to see incumbent President Ilham Aliyev clinching another seven-year term. The election follows his government’s retaking late last year of a region formerly controlled by ethnic Armenian separatists. Aliyev has been in power for more than 20 years, and this is his fifth election cycle. His government has introduced increasingly repressive laws that have quashed political debate. Opposition figures and independent journalists have been ...

Azerbaijanis are voting in an election almost certain to see incumbent President Ilham Aliyev clinching another seven-year term. The election follows his government’s retaking late last year of a region

Azerbaijanis are voting in an election almost certain to see incumbent President Ilham Aliyev clinching another seven-year term. The election follows his government’s retaking late last year of a region

Azerbaijanis are voting in an election almost certain to see incumbent President Ilham Aliyev clinching another seven-year term

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) - Preliminary results of Azerbaijan's presidential elections show an expected victory fo...

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Preliminary results of Azerbaijan’s presidential elections Wednesday showed a landslide victory for incumbent President Ilham Aliyev, whose re-election was widely expected following his government’s swift reclaiming

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Preliminary results of Azerbaijans presidential elections show an expected victory for incumbent Ilham Aliyev, officials said Wednesday.

Aliyev, 62, has been in power for more than 20 years, succeeding his father who was Azerbaijan's Communist boss and then president for a decade when it became independent after the 1991 Soviet collapse.