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Azerbaijan’s Aliyev: the latest petro-president-for-life?

Voters go to the polls today to vote in a controversial referendum as oil-rich Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev Aliyev becomes the latest “petro-president” to consolidate his grip on power by abolishing term limits. Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez secured the necessary constitutional amendments last month, the Kazakh parliament lifted presidential term limits in 2007, and the Kremlin [read full story]

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