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Ilham Aliyev wins anticipated landslide victory, however OSCE screens say vote was \u2018restrictive\u2019 and \u2018not aggressive\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Election observers from the Organisation for Safety and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have raised \u201ccritical questions\u201d in regards to the validity of Azerbaijan\u2019s presidential election, which noticed incumbent Ilham Aliyev<\/a> safe a fifth time period with greater than 90 p.c of the vote.<\/p>\n The election was \u201cnot aggressive\u201d and \u201cwas held in a restrictive setting\u201d, OSCE screens informed a information convention within the capital, Baku, on Thursday, a day after the ballot. They stated that \u201clatest arrests of vital journalists have hindered the media from working freely\u201d.<\/p>\n There was no instant remark from the federal government.<\/p>\n With greater than 93 p.c of the ballots counted, Aliyev secured greater than 92 p.c of votes, the pinnacle of the Central Election Fee, Mazahir Panahov, stated on Thursday.<\/p>\n \u201cWhereas six different candidates participated within the marketing campaign, none of them convincingly challenged the incumbent president\u2019s insurance policies of their campaigns, leaving voters with none real different,\u201d the screens stated.<\/p>\n The OSCE famous \u201cproblems with secrecy of the vote, an absence of safeguards in opposition to a number of voting, indications of poll stuffing\u201d, elevating \u201ccritical questions on whether or not ballots had been counted and reported actually\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWhereas preparations for the election had been environment friendly {and professional}, it lacked real pluralism and important voices had been constantly stifled,\u201d the observers stated.<\/p>\n Aliyev\u2019s time in energy has been marked by the introduction of more and more strict legal guidelines that curb political debate, in addition to the arrests of opposition figures and independent journalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n He shall be within the limelight in November when Azerbaijan, a rustic reliant on revenues from fossil fuels, hosts a United Nations local weather change convention.<\/p>\n Aliyev, 62, who has been in energy for greater than 20 years,\u00a0is now heading into one other seven-year time period in workplace.<\/p>\n He was first elected president in 2003 after the dying of his father Heydar Aliyev, a former KGB officer who had dominated Azerbaijan since 1993.<\/p>\n He was re-elected in 2008, 2013 and most not too long ago in 2018 with 86 p.c of the votes. All of the elections had been denounced by opposition events as rigged.<\/p>\n In 2009, Aliyev amended the structure so he may run for a vast variety of presidential phrases, a transfer criticised by rights advocates who argued he may develop into president for all times.<\/p>\n\u2018President for all times\u2019<\/h2>\n