Azerbaijan, Baku / Тrend corr E. Huseynli / The opposition parties of the country are in a coma, the chairman of the Azerbaijani Vahdat party, Tahir Karimli, told Trend on 20 September.
"The weak social basis of the opposition parties cannot sustain public meetings," he said.
Azerbaijan's leading opposition parties held their last public event on the threshold of the presidential elections of 2003. In previous times, left-wing parties held several small-scale rally-marches. According to the opposition leaders, the people have lost their trust in the elections which caused their passiveness.
The opposition does not appear in the political scene, and that proves its weakness, Karimli said.
Vahdat was in the opposition by 2006. The party is headed by the former chairman of Azerbaijan's Supreme Court, ex-MP Tahir Karimli, who supports the authorities' political course.