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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Environment Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters Azerbaijan votes to lift Aliyev term limit Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:56pm EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Matt Robinson and Margarita Antidze BAKU (Reuters) - Oil-producing Azerbaijan voted to lift the country's two-term presidential limit Wednesday, handing President Ilham Aliyev the chance to rule for life provided he keeps winning re-election. The constitutional amendment opens the door to the Aliyev family extending its decades-long dominance of the former Soviet state -- a supplier of oil and gas to the West -- after Aliyev's second term ends in 2013. The state election commission said 92.2 percent of voters in the referendum backed scrapping the limit based on results from 54 percent of polling stations. Turnout was put at 71 percent, despite an opposition call on voters to stay at home. "These amendments are for the good of the people," teacher Sabir Farajev, 70, said after voting beneath a large photograph of Aliyev and his father. "If the president deserves to be head of state, he can be president for life," he said. Aliyev, 47, has been president since 2003, when he succeeded his father Heydar, who led Azerbaijan first as Communist leader within the Soviet Union then as president. His rule has coincided with an economic boom fueled by oil pumped to Europe from the Caspian Sea in a region where the West and Russia are vying for influence over huge energy reserves. In keeping with its location at a strategic crossroads at the threshold of Central Asia, Aliyev has tried to strike a balance between Moscow and the West, notably on energy policy. The mainly Muslim country is key to Europe's hopes of reducing its energy dependence on Russia, a fact the opposition says has diluted Western criticism of Azeri democracy. Rapid economic growth has brought improved infrastructure and living standards for some. Veteran opposition leaders are seen as weak, and fatally linked with the war and chaos that marred Azerbaijan's first years of independence -- a brief spell when the Aliyevs were not at the helm. CURBS ON DEMOCRACY But rights groups say Aliyev's grip on power owes more to strict curbs on democracy and to the personality cult built around his father, whose portrait and name adorn sidewalks and buildings across Azerbaijan. Opposition leaders in the country of 8.7 million people complained of ballot stuffing and pressure on local observers, and disputed the turnout figure. Aliyev claimed 89 percent of the vote in last year's presidential election, which was also boycotted by the opposition and deemed less than democratic by European monitors. Some analysts say the authorities want to shore up Aliyev's rule against the uncertain impact of the global economic crisis, with depressed oil prices likely to rein in spending plans and test the currency. Rampant corruption limits how much oil revenue makes it beyond Baku to poorer towns and villages. The ruling party dismissed opposition warnings of deepening authoritarianism. Continued... 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