Father-son transition focus of Turkmenistan vote
Published on: Sunday 13 March 2022
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan: Polling stations closed in Turkmenistan on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) in a tightly controlled presidential election that is all but certain to yield ex-Soviet Central Asia's first father-son succession. Nine candidates are in the fray in the isolated country of 6 million people, but few doubt that strongman Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov's 40-year-old son Serdar — who has pledged to continue his father's course — will take...
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