"Community of Western Azerbaijan" supports Ilham Aliyev's candidature in the elections
"Community of Western Azerbaijan" supports Ilham Aliyev's candidature in the elections
Baku/29.12.23/Turan: The "Community of Western Azerbaijan" supports the candidacy of incumbent President Ilham Aliyev in the upcoming Presidential elections on 7 February 2024.
"We are confident that Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev, who has returned thousands of IDPs to Karabakh and East Zangezur, will return us peacefully to our homeland - West Azerbaijan," the organisation said in a statement.
It claims that "hundreds of thousands of community members" support Ilham Aliyev's candidacy.
It should be noted that officially the pre-election campaigning in the elections starts on 17 January and ends a day before the elections - at 8.00 a.m. on the sixth of February. -06B-
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