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| | Welcome to Azerbaijan |
 | | The nation's highest court is the Supreme Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan, which like the U.S. Supreme Court has the authority of judicial review. | | | The Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan establishes this form of government and is the supreme law within the republic. | | | The executive power is vested in the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, who serves as chief executive and head of state. |
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| | Political Parties and Movements in Azerbaijan |
| | Excluded from the Democratic Congress in 1995, the party allied with the Adalet (Justice) Party in 1996. | | | Musavat is commonly characterized as the party of the Azerbaijani intelligentsia, and the repository for many of the former ministers and diplomats of the Elchibey government. | | | Although not officially a political party, the Front was allowed to field candidates in elections for the Supreme Soviet in October 1990, in which 25 of its members won seats. |
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| | Politics of Azerbaijan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Azerbaijan has a strong presidential system in which the legislative and judicial branches have only limited independence. | | | The National Council conferred presidential powers upon its new Speaker, Heydar Aliyev, former First Secretary of the Azerbaijani Communist Party (1969-81) and later a member of the U.S.S.R. Politburo, the KGB, and USSR Deputy Prime Minister (until 1987). | | | The judicial branch, headed by a Constitutional Court, which is only nominally independent. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Azerbaijan
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| | Polity IV Country Report 2003: Azerbaijan |
| | Under the new constitution, the president would be allowed to select the prime minister. | | | In order to guarantee the succession of Aliyev by his son, a controversial referendum was held in August 2002 that proposed to change the constitution to allow the prime minister, instead of the chairman of parliament, to be deputy head of state. | | | The political implications of these constitutional changes were that if Heydar Aliyev were to become physically incapacitated, he would be able to hand the running of the country over to his prime minister (potentially his son) until elections were called. |
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http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/polity/Aze1.htm
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| | Azerbaijan - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about Azerbaijan |
| | Azerbaijan declared itself independent of the USSR in Aug., 1991, and became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), community of independent nations established by a treaty signed at Minsk, Belarus, on Dec. 8, 1991, by the heads of state of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. | | | Azerbaijan is headed by a president who is elected by popular vote to a five-year term. | | | In the Nov., 1995, elections, which were condemned by outside observers as rigged, voters elected a new parliament that was dominated by Aliyev's party and approved constitutional changes that expanded his power. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Azerbaijan
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| | Geidar Aliev Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | Aliyev became acting president and, as part of a deal with the coup leaders, gained appointment as the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan on June 15. | | | He was subsequently won election as a deputy in the Azerbaijani legislature and in 1991 gained the appointment of Chairman of the Supreme Majlis [Council] of the Nakhçhivan Autonomous Republic. | | | (See also Politics of Azerbaijan.) He was married to Zarifa Aziz kizy Aliyeva, who died in 1985, and was survived by his son and daughter. |
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| | Azerbaijan |
| | The Court also declared unconstitutional the retroactive application of a clause in the election law that required parties to be registered 6 months in advance of the announcement of the elections. | | | Members of unregistered political parties can run for president but must be sponsored by a registered party or an independent "voters initiative group." Members of unregistered parties may run for Parliament, but only as independents in a direct constituency, not on a party list. | | | In September the unregistered Justice Party also was evicted from its regional offices in Sumgait, and the Civil Unity Party, which supports former President Ayaz Mutalibov, was evicted from its party headquarters in Baku. |
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http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eur/8225.htm
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| | People's Daily Online -- Ruling party winning Azerbaijan's parliament vote |
| | Azerbaijan's ruling New Azerbaijan Party is poised to win Sunday's parliamentary elections as preliminary results showed it has won 58 seats in the 125-seat parliament, the Central Election Commission chief said on Monday. | | | Guliyev, a former parliamentary speaker who has been living in the United States for the past decade to avoid embezzlement charges, was briefly arrested in late October in Ukraine on a fueling stop when he chartered a plane to return to Baku for the parliament vote and then headed for London. | | | With 28 percent of the votes counted, the ruling party has won 58 seats while the opposition alliance Azadliq, which groups the Musavat party, the Popular Front and the Democratic Party, has only five seats, Mazakhir Panakhov, chairman of the Central Election Commission, told a news briefing. |
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| | Azeri ruling party loses majority, but remains largest: exit poll |
| | The Yeni (New) Azerbaijan Party, which is headed by President Ilham Aliyev, won 56 seats, down from 74, in the 125-seat assembly, according to the exit poll by Mitofsky International and Edison Media Research. | | | A source at the Central Election Commission told AFP that "the majority of seats in the new parliament, according to preliminary results, went to the ruling party New Azerbaijan. | | | A senior Azadliq leader earlier called for the cancellation of "falsified" parliamentary elections, while Yeni Azerbaijan Party's executive secretary Ali Akhmedov said they expected to win a majority of seats. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Azeri ruling party 'wins' polls |
| | With around 90% of votes counted, the New Azerbaijan Party had won 62 of the 125 seats in parliament, the electoral body said. | | | Asked at a news briefing after the polls closed if the ruling New Azerbaijan Party had reached its pre-election target of retaining its 75 seats, Executive Secretary Ali Ahmedov said: "Our information is that, yes, at the very least we have achieved that target." | | | The government has said it will act to prevent a Ukraine-style revolution in Azerbaijan. |
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| | RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY |
| | Ilham Aliev, the son of ailing Azerbaijani President Heidar Aliev, was today confirmed as the country's new prime minister in a move designed to ensure he succeeds his father as the country's leader. | | | The move stirs speculation that his father, Heidar Aliev, the country's 80-year-old president, may be close to death. | | | Prague, 4 August 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Azerbaijan's ruling elite today confirmed the appointment of 41-year-old Ilham Aliyev as the country's prime minister. |
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| | POLITICS-AZERBAIJAN: Son Takes the Presidential Path |
| | Constitutional amendments approved by a referendum last year provide for the prime minister to take over as acting president if the President is incapacitated, or he resigns. | | | Ilham Aliyev, a graduate from the elite diplomatic institute in Moscow, is already vice-president of the state oil company and deputy head of the ruling party. | | | MOSCOW, Aug 4 (IPS) - Ilham Aliyev, son of ailing President Heidar Aliyev was named prime minister of Azerbaijan Monday. |
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| | EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - International Community and Opposition Say Parliamentary Vote Marked By Massive Fraud |
| | The leading opposition party, Musavat, issued a statement on November 6 that asserted only about 35 percent of registered voters actually participated in the election, not the 70 percent claimed by election officials. | | | The election indicates that Azerbaijan’s governing elite is willing to risk international censure in order to ensure a political transition in which President Heidar Aliev can hand off power to his son. | | | Under Azerbaijan’s political framework, the speaker of parliament would become president if the incumbent decides to step down before the end of the presidential term, or if the leader becomes incapacitated. |
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| | The younger Aliyev had served as the vice-president of Azerbaijan’s state-run oil company, and was elected as vice-president of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly. | | | In August 2002, voters supported a series of constitutional amendments in a referendum, as Aliyev seemed poised to seek a new term in office. | | | The election was boycotted by Abulfaz Elchibey, who had substituted Mutallibov as head of state. |
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| | New Azerbaijan Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It was formed by Heydar Aliyev who led it until his retirement and death in 2003. | | | At the last elections (5 november 2000 and 7 january 2001), the party won 62.3 % of the popular vote and 75 out of 125 seats. | | | The New Azerbaijan Party (Yeni Azərbaycan Partiyası) is the ruling political party in Azerbaijan. |
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| | AZERBAIJAN NEWSLETTER |
| | *President Aliyev appealed to the New Azerbaijan Party, Party of Popular Front, Party National Independence as well as to non-partisan members of Azerbaijan’s Parliament, the Milli Mejlis, to submit their nominations for membership in the Central Electoral Commission by July 1. | | | Earlier, the Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned so-called elections held by Armenian separatists on the occupied territories of Azerbaijan as a violation of international law. | | | President Heydar Aliyev took part in the Moscow summit of the Heads of States of the Commonwealth of Independent States on June 20-21. |
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| | Ilham Aliyev: Information From Answers.com |
| | During his father Heydar Aliyev's presidency, Ilham Aliyev was vice-president of the State Oil Company (SOCAR), president of the National Olympic Committee (still incumbent) and head of the Azerbaijan delegation to the Council of Europe. | | | The opposition proclaimed this as a violation of state laws, because according to the law on political parties, the president should have no party affiliation. | | | In August several months prior to presidential elections, the ailing president Heydar Aliyev appointed him prime minister, a move highly criticized by the domestic opposition. |
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| | Azerbaijan's Ruling Party Claims Lead in Vote |
| | 7 -- The ruling party of President Ilham Aliyev appeared to be leading in parliamentary elections here, according to early returns Sunday. | | | More than 1,500 candidates ran for the 125 seats in the national parliament, the Milli Majlis. | | | Some voters on Sunday defended Aliyev as working to transform the country to everyone's benefit. |
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| | Azerbaijan - Party Configuration after 1991 |
| | Under election legislation passed since Aliyev's accession, a party must have at least 1,000 members to be legally registered by the Ministry of Justice. | | | The government has banned parties that reject Azerbaijan's territorial integrity or inflame racial, national, or religious enmity. | | | Two small parties, the Independent Democratic Party (IDP) and the National Independence Party (NIP), were formed by former members of the APF in early 1992. |
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| | BBC News EUROPE Observers criticise Azeri vote |
| | The vote was Azerbaijan's second parliamentary election since the Caspian state became independent after the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union. | | | The Azerbaijan election commission says results so far show that New Azerbaijan, the party of President Haydar Aliyev, is well ahead with more than 74% of the vote. | | | Candidates from 12 parties and one electoral bloc competed for 124 seats - 99 to be determined by individual races, and 25 to be distributed among parties on a proportional basis. |
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| | CBC News: Azerbaijan ruling party claims victory after poll |
| | The country's Central Election Commission said Monday morning that, with votes in from 47 per cent of the precincts, the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan (New Azerbaijan) party held the lead with 63 seats in the 125-seat parliament. | | | It said the largest opposition bloc, Azadlyq, had captured only six seats, while independent candidates had captured 39. | | | Members of the opposition have blamed the United States and other western countries for not pressuring Aliyev enough on democratic reforms. |
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| | ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Azerbaijan elections under close scrutiny |
| | In the meantime, Azerbaijan’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has annulled the results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections in one electoral district and ordered a recount in a second. | | | And although the CIS noted a number of irregularities, including instances of voter intimidation, they stressed that the election had been “conducted in accordance with the norms of the country’s electoral law”. | | | Isa Gambar, the Musavat party leader and a 2003 presidential candidate, declared that Azadlig would “have the strength to overturn the results and conduct new elections&;, according to press reports. |
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| | The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Political parties and leaders |
| | Botswana Democratic Party or BDP [Festus MOGAE]; Botswana National Front or BNF [Otswoletse MOUPO]; Botswana Congress Party or BCP [Otiandisa KOOSQLEDSE]; Botswana Alliance Movement or BAM [Ephraim Lepetu SETSHWAELO] | | | National Democratic Party [Celeste BENITEZ]; National Republican Party of Puerto Rico [Luis FERRE]; New Progressive Party or PNP (pro-US statehood) [Carlos PESQUERA]; Popular Democratic Party or PPD (pro-commonwealth) [Sila M. CALDERON]; Puerto Rican Independence Party or PIP (pro-independence) [Ruben BERRIOS Martinez] | | | Democratic Party (party of Governor GUTIERREZ) [leader NA]; Republican Party (controls the legislature) [leader NA] |
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| | New Azerbaijan Party -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | At the last (A vote to select the winner of a position or political office) elections (5 november 2000 and 7 january 2001), the party won 62.3 % of the popular vote and 75 out of 125 seats. | | | [Categories: Political parties in Azerbaijan, Authoritarian political parties] | | | It was formed by (Click link for more info and facts about Heydar Aliyev) Heydar Aliyev who led it until his retirement and death in 2003. |
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| | ALIYEV’S SON ILHAM ON ROAD TO AZERBAIJAN’S PRESIDENCY |
| | Azerbaijan's Parliament on Monday named ailing President Heydar Aliev's son as Prime Minister in replacement of Artur Rasizadeh, a move that could pave the way for the flamboyant, 41 years-old Ilham Aliyev to the country's top job. | | | Besides being vice chairman of Azerbaijan’s State Oil Company, the younger Aliyev is also the president of Azerbaijan’s Olympic Committee and deputy General Secretary of the country’s ruling New Azerbaijan Party. | | | Musa Musayev, a member of parliament from the New Azerbaijan Party, publicly accused parliamentarians from his own party of starting secret negotiations with members of the opposition. |
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| | The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 515 |
| | With 50 percent of ballots from Sunday's vote counted, the Yeni (New) Azerbaijan Party won 64 seats, or just over half of the parliament, the Central Elections Commission (CEC) said. | | | Specifically, "The 6 November parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan did not meet a number of OSCE commitments and Council of Europe standards for democratic elections." | | | The other seats went to independent candidates and small parties. |
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| | ANS Group of Companies Official Website NEWS |
| | Chairmen of several parties and election blocks, as well as heads of Executive Powers of Ganja, Sumgayit, Guba, Lankaran Districts also attended in the seminary. | | | I highly appreciate it, stated Ali Ahmadov, deputy executive secretary of Yeni Azerbaijan (New Azerbaijan) Party. | | | Opening the meeting Ali Ahmadov, executive secretary of the Party said the party marks its victory in the parliamentary elections held few days ago with this action. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: NE: NEW |
| | New England Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools | | | New Brunswick New Democratic Party leadership election, 2005 | | | New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn |
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| | Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Ruling party wins elections in Azerbaijan |
| | Aliyev's party, New Azerbaijan, had 74.8 % of the vote, according to preliminary results, with 26.8 % of the vote tallied, according to Central Election Committee member Gusein Pashayev. | | | New Azerbaijan party officials charged that opposition groups had made numerous election violations, including ignoring a ban on campaigning on the day before the vote. | | | Opposition parties said the government's New Azerbaijan party had forged ballots and intimidated opposition observers and expelled them from voting stations. |
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| | Elections in Azerbaijan |
| | İlham Heydər ğlu Äliyev - New Azerbaijan Party | | | Nagorno Karabakh seceded from Azerbaijan but is internationally not recognized as an independent state and is legally part of Azerbaijan. | | | Freedom House rated the country on political rights with a 6 and on civil rights with a 5, both on a scale of 1 to 7 (in which 1 is the most free). |
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| | Institute for War and Peace Reporting |
| | The new turbulence in the Azerbaijani political landscape is occurring more than a year and a half before the next presidential elections, for which the New Azerbaijan party has already put forward the 78-year old President Aliev as its candidate for a third term. | | | A parliamentary deputy from the governing party New Azerbaijan, Mubariz Gurbanly, said the rally had been deliberately provocative. | | | Shahin Rzayev is IWPR's Associate Editor in Baku, Azerbaijan. |
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| | CNN.com - Azerbaijan: Ruling party in lead - Nov 6, 2005 |
| | The election pitted President Ilham Aliev's New Azerbaijan Party against the Azadliq (Freedom) coalition, the New Policy bloc of technocrats, and an array of smaller parties and independent candidates. | | | With votes counted in 28 percent of constituencies, the Central Election Commission reported early Monday that 58 candidates from the ruling New Azerbaijan Party were in the lead, followed by 30 independents and four candidates from the opposition Musavat party. | | | After casting his ballot at a school decorated with a portrait of his late father, who led Azerbaijan both in Soviet times and independence, Aliev said the campaign had been fair. |
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| | AzerTAj STATE INFORMATION AGENCY OF AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC |
| | On 10 November, President of the Azerbaijan Republic received the Head of the OSCE Elections Observation Mission Geert Ahrens to exchange views on the return of the parliamentary elections... | | | Marie Beguin made a statement on behalf of the delegation of the European Parliament on the parliamentary elections Azerbaijan. | | | DECREE OF PRESIDENT OF THE AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC ON ENTERING AMENDMENTS IN THE DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC #782 FROM SEPTEMBER 2, 2002 “ON IMPROVEMENT OF RULES OF GRANTING SPECIAL LICENSE FOR SOME KINDS OF ACTIVITIES” |
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| | Azerbaijan: country profile |
| | New Azerbaijan Party; Popular Front of Azerbaijan; Citizens' Solidarity Party; Azerbaijan Communist Party; New Equality Party; Azerbaijan National Independence Party, Musavat Party, Vandat Party. | | | The country profiles are drawn from the World Guide 2001/2002, New Internationalist Publications Ltd, 55 Rectory Road, Oxford, OX4 1BW, U.K; Instituto del Tercer Mundo, Jackson 1136, Montevideo 11200, Uruguay. | | | Located in the eastern part of Transcaucasia, Azerbaijan is bordered by Iran to the south, Armenia to the west, Georgia to the northwest, Dagestan (an autonomous region of the Russian Federation) to the north, and the Caspian Sea to the east. |
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| | Karabakh.org Front Page |
| | The obtained materials witnesses about supporting of terrorism on the state level and use for that individuals from prisoners of war and hostages, citizens of third countries and members of national minorities of the Republic of Azerbaijan. | | | The meeting was opened by secretary of the Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP), MP Ali Ahmadov, who informed that tens of thousands representatives of the YAP, as well as a number of other parties, NOGs and public took part at the event. | | | NEW AZERBAIJAN PARTY ADDRESSED INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN PROTEST MEETING New Azerbaijan Party held a protest meeting February 21 in Galaba (Victory) square in Baku together with NGOs and pro-authority political organizations. |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Azerbaijan |
| | election results: percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - NAP and allies 108, APF "Reform" 6, CSP 3, PNIA 2, Musavat Party 2, CPA 2, APF "Classic" 1, Compatriot Party 1 | | | Founding of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan, 28 May (1918) | | | This page was last updated on 1 November, 2005 |
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| | FSU new issues - Azerbaijan - 10th Anniversary of the New Azerbaijan Party. |
| | The emblem of of the New Azerbaijan Party (NAP). | | | FSU new issues - Azerbaijan - 10th Anniversary of the New Azerbaijan Party. | | | This page is a part of the FSU New Issues Catalogue, maintained by the Worldwide Society of Russian Philately |
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| | Assad said he's concerned the UN team may be the cover for a plot against the Baath Party regime that has ruled Syria for more than 42 years, by trying to divide the government. | | | Mehlis is to report back to the UN Security Council about Syria's cooperation in mid-December. | | | Public outrage at the murder and international pressure forced Syria to pull its troops from neighboring Lebanon in April, ending a 29-year presence. |
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| | Salon.com News Wires |
| | Azerbaijan's opposition on Monday rejected the results of weekend parliamentary elections, calling them rigged and vowing to overturn the outcome of voting that foreign observers said fell short of international standards. | | | Two choices for reading the rest of this article and all of Salon: | | | SALON is a trademark and a registered trademark of Salon Media Group Inc. |
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