By Jaime Ortega.
The president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has won the presidential election in this country, according to preliminary data . The main opposition candidate Hasanli Jamil, was left with 8% of the votes .
Aliyev has been, in power since 2003 and would get 83% of the votes of the entire cast, havin a third presidential term for more than five years, according to the survey conducted by the company Prognoz. He is the leader of the Caucasus that takes longer in power.
Hasanli Jamil, denounced fraud in many polling stations in the country. Some sectors of the opposition even released images of the same people voting at the same table.
Results before voting
Azerbaijan has experienced spectacular economic growth over the last decade, and tried to provide an image of modernity in these elections incorporating a mobile application that allowed voters to continue the count.
But the invention collapsed when a coordination error made users receive the results shortly before polling stations would open. Until the data appeared it reflected constituencies. The Central Electoral Commission has tried to step out saying they were previous test on data electoral process, but immediately afterwards recalled that in the data appeared contenders who did not take part in the above .
A television monitoring the opposition managed to capture an image of the screen before the data was removed. By posting the embarrassing online document obtained 2,000 likes on Facebook in two minutes. Apparently, were pressured into withdrawing Internet history, but the scandal was unstoppable.
International organizations have criticized the country’s democratic progress to be close to zero, plus some encounters with Islam.
The campaign has been criticized . ” We can not say that it was a fair campaign , because there is a huge difference between the resources that the party in power had compared to the opposition, and some opposition candidates have registered to attack other candidates,” said Bakhtiyar Hajiyev , advisor to one of the contestants who have faced President
