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Turkmenistan votes, president’s son expected to win
Among the ex-soviet successor states, Azerbaijan became the first country to make a father-to-son leader succession. Also, Tajikistan is preparing for the same succession by putting the incumbent leader’s son as the head of the upper house. Now, Turkmenistan, a landlocked Central Asian country that lies in the east of the Caspian Sea, has elected the son of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, the incumbent president of the state and chairman of the People’s Council, who assumed the role after the death of the nation’s tyrant Saparmurat Niyazov in 2007. When Berdimuhamedow was elected to those leading roles, he won over 97% of the votes. And the same thing happened in the snap election held on Mar. 12 when his 40-year-old son was unanimously elected to assume the presidential role. Turkmenistan is a small country with a population of just about six million whose economy is heavily dependent on natural gas sales. Officially, there has been no report for coronavirus cases in the country.
In Central Asia’s ex-Soviet states, democracy seems like a convenient way to succeed the leadership to the next generation.
Enjoy reading the article and learn about the born of a new leader in Turkmenistan.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/12/turkmenistan-votes-presidents-son-expected-to-win
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