Turkmenistan’s President Re-Elected with 97% of Vote

The incumbent Turkmen President, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, won the recent presidential election with 97 percent of the vote, trouncing seven token competitors. All of the presidential candidates were from the same — in fact, the only — party, the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan. The results give Berdymukhammedov another five-year term as president of Turkmenistan, an oil- and gas-rich former Soviet republic bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

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