Azerbaijan's incumbent President and a candidate for ongoing Azeri presidential elections Ilham Aliyev casts his ballot as his family members stand nearby at a polling station in Khankendi city, also known as Stepanakert by Armenia, following an Azeri military operation and a further mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, February 7, 2024. Official website of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan/Handout via REUTERS
BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev was on course for a landslide re-election win, initial results showed on Wednesday, in a vote he called early after recapturing the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia and a crackdown on the media.
According to preliminary results released by the central election commission after just over half of the votes had been counted, Aliyev was way ahead with 92.1% of votes cast.
