Voters in Azerbaijan headed to the polls on Sunday because the nation held snap parliamentary elections, the primary since reclaiming management of the Nagorno-Karabah final yr.
The vote for the Milli Mejlis parliament is prone to see President Ilham Aliyev’s New Azerbaijan celebration keep its dominance.
Aliyev’s father dominated Azerbaijan from 1993 till he died in 2003, then Ilham took over. Both have led the nation strongly because the nation of just about 10 million folks on the shores of the Caspian Sea basked in rising wealth from its large oil and pure fuel reserves.
The ruling celebration holds 69 of the 125 seats within the parliament and a lot of the relaxation belong to small pro-government events or independents. The Musavat celebration, the main opposition formation, put forth 34 candidates for Sunday’s election with 25 of them registered. The Republican Alternative opposition celebration will run 12 candidates.
Under the structure, the election ought to have been held in November however Aliyev decreed it to happen two months early because it coincided with the capital, Baku, internet hosting the United Nations local weather talks, referred to as COP29.
The election comes simply wanting a yr after Azerbaijani forces reclaimed in a army operation the Karabakh area, which since 1994 had been below the management of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia, and compelled out its self-declared authorities. Most of the area’s 120,000 Armenian residents later moved to the mainland.
The nationwide election fee says 50 organizations will conduct observer missions. The largest observer contingent, from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, is scheduled to current its preliminary evaluation of the election on Monday.
Source: www.dailysabah.com