Azeris voted in a snap parliamentary election on Sunday seen as the next step by...
BAKU - Azeris voted in a snap parliamentary election on Sunday seen as the next step by President Ilham Aliyev to consolidate power and speed economic reforms by replacing the old guard associated with his father with younger legislators.
In October, Aliyev dismissed his influential chief-of-staff, Ramiz Mehdiyev, and made other high-profile changes including the appointment of 62-year-old economist Ali Asadov as prime minister. “I would call this an authoritarian modernization project,” said Thomas de Waal, a Caucasus expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think-tank.
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