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Employees of the Ministry of Economic Development of Azerbaijan are forced to put “Like” to the official website of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in the social network of Facebook, said senior official of the ministry in the interview with the newspaper ‘‘Azadlyg’’.

Everyone who has put “Like” to webpage of Ilham Aliyev is obliged to report to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Control. The latter, in the general list, puts a tick next to the name of the one who has “liked”. As a proof the ministry official opens his personal Facebook page and demonstrates the “like” to the employees of the internal control.

According to the source, a similar situation exists in other governmental institutions as well: “We were told that this is an instruction “from above.” The aim is clear, everything is designed for the electoral frauds. That is, as soon as the results of the vote will be falsified, a campaign of “Likes” will start and they will show the international organizations that the president has electoral support even in the Facebook,” the source stated.

The newspaper reminds that this is not the first case that the government interference in the vote in the Internet. Recently, in the Facebook was held a vote on presidential candidates’ popularity in the upcoming elections to be held in fall. In the result of the vote the supporters of the candidate of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan Ali Kerimli found out that on weekends people almost do not vote for Ilham Aliyev, but on the workdays, the amount of votes increase dramatically. After some time it turned out that the leaders of the budget organizations force their employees to vote for the current president, Ilham Aliyev.