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		</div><p>Azerbaijan&#8217;s leader has appointed his wife as the first vice president of the ex-Soviet nation &#8211; the person next in line in the nation&#8217;s power hierarchy.</p>
<p>Ilham Aliyev, 55, named Mehriban Aliyeva, 52, to the position created after a constitutional referendum in September.</p>
<p>Ms Aliyeva, who married her husband when she was 19, graduated from a medical university. She has served previously as a legislator and headed a charity.</p>
<p>The vice president takes over the country&#8217;s leadership if the president is unable to perform their duties, according to the constitution.</p>
<p>It does not describe the first vice president&#8217;s main duties, but it is expected they will include overseeing the Cabinet.</p>
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<p>Mr Aliyev&#8217;s critics say the September referendum, which also extended the presidential term from five to seven years, effectively cemented a dynastic rule.</p>
<p>In 2003, he succeeded his father, who ruled Azerbaijan first as the Communist Party boss and then as a post-Soviet president for nearly three decades.</p>
<p>Mr Aliyev and his wife have two daughters and a son.</p>
<p>He has firmly allied the energy-rich Shiite Muslim nation with the West, helping secure his country&#8217;s energy and security interests and offset Russia&#8217;s influence in the strategic Caspian Sea region.</p>
<p>At the same time, his government has long faced criticism in the West for alleged human rights abuses and suppression of dissent.</p>
<p>He has cast himself as a guarantor of stability, an image that has wide appeal in a country where painful memories remain of the turmoil that accompanied the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union.</p>
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