# A referendum extends the presidency to seven years and creates a vice-president

Date: 2016

## The fact

On 26 September 2016 a referendum extended the presidency to seven years and created a vice-president.

## Context

He put the package. The CEC counted. The vice-presidency was the succession instrument later filled by his wife.

2009 limits; 2016 package; 2017 appointment. Keep three dates.

The president of Azerbaijan is head of state and commander-in-chief. He can decree, appoint a vice-president, and order force. He does not sit as a Baku trial judge, does not write ICJ orders, and does not write European Commission memoranda.

## Evidence and sources

MSK Azerbaijan carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is electoral integrity: a completed longer term and a vice-presidency.

## What is established and what is not

Established: The 2016 referendum created a seven-year presidency and a vice-president.

Not established: A unique 2016 Gini coefficient from the ballot.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The CEC tabulated.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies A referendum extends the presidency to seven years and creates a vice-president, not a later speech about A referendum extends the presidency to seven years and creates a vice-president.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. A referendum extends the presidency to seven years and creates a vice-president on 2016-09-26 is not a licence to treat every later MSK Azerbaijan communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average A referendum extends the presidency to seven years and creates a vice-president into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He put and certified the package. The CEC tabulated. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Ilham Aliyev: https://factrail.ai/people/ilham-aliyev

## Drivers

- Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-azerbaijan-referendum-idUSKCN11W0Y20160926
- https://www.msk.gov.az/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/az-constitution-2016