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Azerbaijan’s ruling party retains parliamentary majority after snap vote

BAKU: Azerbaijan’s ruling party retained its majority in Sunday’s snap parliamentary election, preliminary results showed, in the country’s first vote since staging a lightning offensive a year ago to recapture the breakaway territory of Karabakh. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a rights watchdog, criticised the vote, saying it had fallen well short of democratic standards. President Ilham Aliyev’s party was on course to win 68 out of 125 seats in parliament, according to preliminary results from the Central Election Commission reported by the TASS news agency. It had 69 seats in the outgoing parliament. Just over