Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Thursday known as an early presidential election for Feb. 7.
The polls come amid huge help for Aliyev after Azerbaijan’s victory and recapture of the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Aliyev, 61, was final re-elected in 2018 for a seven-year time period, with a declared 86% of the votes.
He is nearly sure to win a brand new time period as head of the oil-rich state on the Caspian Sea which maintains shut ties with Russia, Türkiye and the West.
In September he ordered a lightning offensive, after a nine-month blockade, to take full management of Nagorno-Karabakh from the ethnic Armenian occupiers of over three many years.
It was Baku’s second victory over ethnic Armenian-controlled territory in three years, and eventually overturned the historic unsuitable of Karabakh’s de facto secession in a bloody ethnic battle that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Azerbaijan has established a strong alliance with Türkiye whereas additionally managing working relationships with each Russia and the West.
Source: www.dailysabah.com