Source: Reuters
“Azerbaijan’s ruling party was set to retain its majority in Sunday’s snap parliamentary election, election officials said, in the country’s first vote since staging a lightning offensive a year ago to recapture the breakaway territory of Karabakh. President Ilham Aliyev’s party was on course to win 68 out of 125 seats in parliament, according to preliminary results from the Central Election Commission reported by the TASS news agency. That is nearly on par with the 69 seats in the outgoing parliament. Just over 2 million people in Azerbaijan, a country bounded by the Caspian Sea and Caucasus Mountains, voted, bringing the turnout at the time of the close of polling stations to 37.3%, the Central Election Commission head Mazahir Panakhov said.” (09/02/24)