Azerbaijan, Baku, 15 January / Trend corr. J.Babayeva / The Boz Gurd National-Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, chaired by Iskandar Hamidov, the former Azerbaijani Internal Minister, nominated one candidate for the presidential post from the Union for Democracy.
The Union for Democracy unites three opposition parties, the Classic Popular Front Party, Azadlyg and National Democratic Party. The Union is the consultative structure of these political organizations.
The goal of the organization is to strengthen democratic values and state sovereignty of Azerbaijan, creation of a legislation basis to inject democratic election principles, implementation of democratic elections and reforms, formation of a civil society and political unity in the country.
Hamidov cannot nominate his candidature for the presidential post due to his previous conviction.
Hamidov stated to Trend that his party intended to support one candidate from the Union, who may be nominated on the threshold of the upcoming presidential elections.