Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend I. Aizade / The ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) has publicized its proposals regarding changes and supplements to the Elections Code of Azerbaijan.
The NAP offers to cut the duration of elections campaign from four to two months; commit a candidate who failed to collect enough number of votes, to return the funds allocated by the government for his balloting, reconsider the procedure issues, technical supply and political issues, Siyavush Novruzov, the Deputy Executive Director of the NAP, said.
With respect to improving the Elections Code of Azerbaijan, discussions will be held in Baku on 9 November with the joint organization support by the Government and the CE Venice Commission. Opposition parties of Azerbaijan have developed draft proposals on introducing changes to the Elections Code.
"NAP participated in all elections and well knows the way of application of juridical aspects and procedures and designed its proposals in line with these proposals," Novruzov said.
He noted that the elections process ends within two months in a big country like Russia. "Four months are allocated for the elections process in Azerbaijan. Such a long time cannot be observed in either any European country or post Soviet country," he added.
Novruzov said that NAP is working over proposals regarding supplements and changes to the Elections Code and will present it to the CE Venice Code and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. The ruling party will publicize its proposals in a meeting dedicated to the improvement of the Elections Code of Azerbaijan due in Baku on 9 November.
NAP was established in Nakhchivan in 1992. The first chairman of NAP was former Azerbaijan president Heydar Aliyev. Now Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev leads NAP.