Serdar Berdimuhamedow has won the snap presidential election in Turkmenistan, the Turkmen Central Election Commission said.
Deputy Chairman of the Turkmen Cabinet of Ministers Serdar Berdimuhamedow won the snap presidential election with 72.97 percent of votes.
The snap presidential election was held in Turkmenistan on March 12, 2022. Nine candidates ran for the presidential post.
The election continued from 07:00 till 19:00 (GMT+5). According to the official data, over 3.3 million people voted across the country, which is 97.17 percent of the total number.
His father the President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, 64, announced the vote last month, setting stage for his 40-year old son Serdar to take over. Preliminary results are expected Sunday, but few doubt that the president's son will win by landslide.
Serdar Berdymukhamedov has risen through a series of increasingly prominent government posts and most recently has served as the country's deputy prime minister, answering directly to his father.
