Azerbaijan, Baku, 15 August / Trend corr. E.Babayev / The opposition Democratic Party of Azerbaijan (DPA) believes wrong some parties' will, which refused to participate in the presidential elections, to observe the elections.
"I consider wrong the decision by some opposition parties to observe the elections. DPA will not observe the elections and will not make any statement," Sardar Jalaloglu, Chairman of DPA, told Trend .
Azerbaijan will host the presidential elections on 15 October 2008. The Azadlig bloc, which unites three opposition parties - Popular Front, Citizen and Development and Liberal, as well as Classical Popular Front, Opean Sociaety, Musavat, Civil Solidarity, Democratic, Great Establishmnt parties including Eldar Namazov, head of the Public forum 'For Azerbaijan' refused from participation in the elections.
DPA will not participate in the elections," Jalaloglu said.
Ali Orujov, activist of the opposition Azerbaijani National IndependeNT Party (ANIP) told Trend that every party have different attitude to the elections. "Etibar Mammadov, Leader of ANIP did not nominate his own candidture and we failed to participate in the elections with our own candidate. However, ANIP may participate in the elections in some other form. The final decision regaring the elections will be made at the next meeting of the Political Council," Orujov said.
The opposition Musavat party has stated in spite the party refused from participation it would observe the elections.
"We will observe the elections. Arif Hacili, Head of the Central Executive Administration of Musavat, said. "Musavat will control the results of the presidential elections. We will appeal to the European Court on Human rights as soon as we get documents with results of the elections," Hacili said.
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