2024 Azerbaijani parliamentary election
parliamentary election in Azerbaijan
Parliamentary elections were held in Azerbaijan on 1 September 2024. They were originally scheduled to take place in November 2024, but were brought forward after parliament was dissolved in June 2024. The New Azerbaijan Party of President Ilham Aliyev won a majority of 68 seats in the 125-seat National Assembly.
Campaigning was minimal, the leading opposition Azerbaijani Popular Front Party did not take part and the election was criticized for being undemocratic.
Background
The elections were originally scheduled to take place in November 2024. However, in late June 2024 MPs asked President Ilham Aliyev to dissolve the National Assembly and call elections in September to avoid holding them during the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference to be hosted in Baku from 11 to 22 November. Despite criticism from opposition parties, the measure was approved by the Constitutional Court on 27 June, which allowed Aliyev to dissolve parliament on 28 June and set 1 September as the date for the elections. Previous elections since independence had not been regarded as fully free or fair, and the vote for the Milli Mejlis was not expected to bring significant changes to the body. Going into the election, the ruling New Azerbaijan party held 69 seats.
These were the first elections since Azerbaijan regained the Armenian separatist state of Nagorno-Karabakh, after launching an offensive in September 2023.
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