Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 10 / Trend A. Huseynbala /
Special laws on Baku's mayoral elections must be adopted, Azerbaijan's ruling party said.
"It is impossible to conduct the mayoral elections together with the parliamentary ones", deputy executive secretary of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, MP Mubariz Gurbanli told Trend on Wednesday.
During his visit to the capital of Azerbaijan in September 2009, the President of the European Congress of Local and Regional Authorities Ian Micallef said that it was time for Azerbaijan to elect the mayor of Baku as other countries in the South Caucasus did. The Congress advised Azerbaijan to make the position of Executive Power head (the mayor) of the capital to be elected, not appointed, " Micallef said.
Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan proposed to conduct the parliamentary elections together with mayoral ones in Baku in late 2010.
According to Gurbanli, the process of these elections can be delayed.
"It is necessary to adopt laws on holding elections of mayor in the capital and the transition to this system", MP said.
In his view, it is impossible to adopt these laws before the parliamentary elections.
"But the process of simultaneous conducting of different elections can be implemented in future," Gurbanli said.
The NAP was established by the chairman of the Supreme Majlis of Nakhchivan Heydar Aliyev in 1992. The current President Ilham Aliyev is the chairman of the Party which has been ruling for already 17 years.
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