Azerbaijan to hold snap parliamentary elections on September 1

President Aliyev’s New Azerbaijan Party is expected to win a new majority in the oil-rich country’s legislature.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has called snap parliamentary elections for September 1 that are unlikely to radically change the legislature’s makeup.

On Friday, Aliyev issued a decree ordering the dissolution of parliament, which is dominated by his New Azerbaijan party.

The 62-year-old president, who has been in power since 2003, won a fifth presidential term in…