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title: "Azerbaijan's Aliyev wins fifth presidential term"
url: https://radiomoldova.md/p/29993/azerbaijan-s-aliyev-wins-fifth-presidential-term
published: 2024-02-08T09:40:04Z
language: en
author: "Carolina Străjescu"
section: "International"
source: radiomoldova.md
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# Azerbaijan's Aliyev wins fifth presidential term

> Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev secured a fifth consecutive term in elections on Wednesday, official results showed, an expected outcome after his country's historic victory over Armenian separatists last year, AFP reports.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev secured a fifth consecutive term in elections on Wednesday, official results showed, an expected outcome after his country's historic victory over Armenian separatists last year, AFP reports.

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Tallies showed that Aliyev won the election with 92 percent of the vote after nearly all electoral precincts declared results, in a ballot held during a crackdown on independent media and in the absence of any real opposition.

"The Azerbaijani people have elected Ilham Aliyev as the country's president," Central Election Commission chief Mazahir Panahov told a press conference.

Turnout was 67.7 percent, he added.

Aliyev was heralded at home after his troops recaptured in September the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region from Armenian separatists who had controlled it for decades.