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BAKU: Polls closed on Sunday in Azerbaijan’s snap parliamentary election which were decried by the opposition as a sham while international observers said the polls were “well organised”. Faced with public discontent over a slowing economy President Ilham Aliyev, 58, hoped to improve the government’s image by holding early elections and replacing discredited old elites with younger technocrats, critics said. …

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