Initial counts showed Aliyev won the election with 92.1 percent of the vote after 54.5 percent of polling stations declared voting results. It was held against the background of repression against independent media and in the absence of real opposition. A result was expected after his country's military victory over Armenian separatists last year. /BGNES
Ilham Aliyev re-elected for the fifth time as the head of Azerbaijan
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