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President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has officially won another term in office with 92.12% of the vote, the country’s Central Election Commission said Friday. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Thursday that the election took place in a restrictive environment with no real political competition. Aliyev has been in power for more than 20 years.
Aliyev’s time in power has been marked by the introduction of increasingly strict laws that curb political debate, as well as arrests of opposition figures and independent journalists
Ilham Aliyev succeeded his father in 2003, who was president of the country under Communism and remained in power for a decade after the desolution of the Soviet Union.
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has officially won another term in office with 92.12% of the vote, the country’s Central Election Commission said on Friday.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's landslide re-election victory has been confirmed by the Eurasian nation's Central Election Commission.