Azerbaijan, Baku, 16 February /corr. Trend S.Ilhamgizi / The meeting of the Supreme Assembly of Azerbaijan Democratic Party on 16 February put forward unanimous candidature of Sardar Jalaloglu for the coming presidential elections in Azerbaijan.
The presidential elections in Azerbaijan will take place in October. The member of the party, Gurban Mammadov, refused its candidature in favor of Jalaloglu.
Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, Azerbaijan Liberal Party and Citizen and Development Party which represent Azadlyg political bloc stated that they boycott the elections unless the election commissions will be formed on a parity base.
The ruling New Azerbaijan Party officially put forward the candidature of the party's Chairman, current President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.
Jalaloglu said at the meeting that the policy of Azerbaijan Democratic Party to establish a dialogue with the government is now supported by other opposition parties. According to him, the opposition camp condemned and blamed the new political way which was chosen by the party a year ago, but now other parties also understand that it needs to avoid political hypocrisy.
Gurban Mammadov said in his speech that if falsifications come into existence during the election campaign, the party will boycott elections.
ADP was founded by Sardar Jalaloglu in1991. By January 2007 the party occupied an oppositional position against the authorities. The party took a new political course in dialogue with the authorities in January 2007. Rasul Guliyev, the former chairman of the party, and his supporters separated from the party protesting against the new political course of the party and founded their new Open Society Party.