Another early election in Azerbaijan.
Another vote boycotted by the opposition, taken by surprise by the upheaval of the electoral calendar and refusing to take part in the farce of a
“hegemonic authoritarian electoral regime”
.
Result: President Ilham Aliev, 63, who succeeded his father Gueïdar in 2003, is seeking a fifth term against candidates who, during the first televised debate of the campaign (in which the "outgoing president" did not participate ), have continued to praise his action and in particular the definitive resumption of control over Nagorno-Karabakh last September, a region that Armenia had disputed for three decades.
It is the return to the homeland of Karabakh which justifies, according to Ilham Aliev, this one-year early election:
“These elections mark the end of an era.
For the first time since our independence, elections will take place in every corner of our country.”
Other reasons explain his decision according to observers.
“Because of the victory…
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