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Azerbaijan holds snap presidential vote as Aliyev rides support from retaking of Karabakh
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Election posters of all Azerbaijani presidential candidates are displayed in Baku, Azerbaijan, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. Azerbaijan will hold presidential elections on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. - photo by AP Photo/Sergei Grits
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Azerbaijanis are voting Wednesday in an election almost certain to see incumbent President Ilhan Aliyev chosen to serve another seven-year term, following his government’s retaking of a region formerly controlled by ethnic Armenian separatists. Aliyev, 62, has been in power for more than 20 years, and this is his fifth election cycle. He ordered an early presidential election in December, shortly after his government retook the Karabakh region in a lightning military operation against ethnic Armenian forces.