Presidential elections were held in

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on 12 February 2012. They were Turkmenistan's fourth presidential elections and decided who would be the country's president for the next five years.

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow (born 29 June 1957), also known as Arkadag (Cyrillic: Аркадаг, "protector"), is a Turkmen politician who served as the second president of Turkmenistan from 2006 to 2022. A dentist by profe ...

won with 97% of the vote.

Candidates

Official

, incumbent

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# Rejep Bazarow, deputy head of the

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# Kakageldi Abdullaýew, Governor of the

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# Gurbanmämmet Mollaniýazow, manager of

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# Annageldi Orazberdiýewiç Ýazmyradow, Water Minister # Esendurdy Gaýypow, head of Lebapgurluşyk production association # Saparmyrat Batyrow, director of the Gökdepe

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# Ýarmuhammet Orazgulyýew, Deputy Energy and Industry Minister All of them are members of Turkmenistan's only political party, the

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Declared interest

# Nurmuhammet Hanamow, leader of the exiled

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Denied

# Aina Abayeva, English teacher nominated by the Civil Society Movement. Her request to participate was rejected because the organisation that nominated her was an unregistered NGO. Its lack of legal status meant that it did not have the authority to make such a nomination.

Campaign

Campaigning started in October 2011. During the campaign many of the candidates running against the incumbent president expressed their support for him, thus giving rise to suspicions that his victory was more or less guaranteed. According to an expert from the

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, "the vote asa democratic sham" and an example of "

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democracy".

Results

References

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