Azerbaijan, Baku, 4 August / Trend corr. E.Babayev/ Governing New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) determined the number of the watchdogs for presidential elections.
"NAP unites 450,000 members. We can appoint watchdogs to every of the 5,000 polling stations. Members of the party have been selected for this purpose. Our watchdogs will number at least 10,000," Executive Secretary and Deputy Chairman of the NAP Ali Ahmadov said to Trend on 4 August.
Azerbaijan will hold the presidential elections on 15 October. The governing New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) nominated country's current President Ilham Aliyev. Bloc Azadlig uniting three opposition parties (Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, Citizen and Development Party, Liberal Party), as well as the Classic Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, decided to boycott the elections. Musavat, Civil Solidarity, Democratic and the Great Establishment party refused to participate in the elections. The Greens Party, the Popular Front Party of Unified Azerbaijan, the Musir Musavat, the Liberal-Democratic Party and Umid officially nominated their chairmen (Mais Gulaliyev, Gudrat Hasanguliyev, Hafiz Hajiyev, Fuad Aliyev, Igbal Agazade respectively) for presidency.
According to Ahmadov, in conformity with certain norms of the Election Code one watchdog may be selected by the candidate and one by the party which nominated the candidate. NAP will use the utmost of the opportunities provided by the legislation. "No one in Azerbaijan doubts it is Ilham Aliyev to win the elections. We anticipate this. However, NAP is an organization which does not allow calm political processes. All our victories result from many factors, as well as from drawing of serious resources in the political processes. We will stick to this line again at these elections and will draw in all available human resources. We discussed application of several new technologies in the election campaign," said Ahmadov.
The NAP was founded in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan (NAR) in 1992 by Heydar Aliyev, who then was the chair of the Nakhchivan Parliament. Present chairman of the party, which has been governing for 15 years, is Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
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