Azerbaijan, Baku, 3 November / Trend corr. A.Huseynbala / None of principles, which the Azerbaijan Democratic Party put forward for establishing union of opposition, were taken into consideration.
"I offered not to discuss steps, which earlier were taken by the political movement to be included in the union. Some parties, which will be our allies in future, want the union to be established on the eve of the municipal and parliamentary elections," Sardar Jalaloglu, the chairman of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party of (ADP), told Trend on 3 November.
In early September, parties included in Azadlig bloc the (the Popular Front Party, the Liberal Party and the Citizen and Development), the Musavat Party and the Public Forum 'For Azerbaijan' signed a joint statement on recognition of the presidential elections to be held on 15 October as illegitimate. Government to be formed after the presidential elections, are announced as illegitimate in the statement. The ADP refused to participate in the elections.
After the elections, negotiations began on the opposition's becoming much larger coalition, whilst such coalition has not yet formed because of mutual accusations.
According to the ADP chairman, opposition will not make any effort to be unified in much larger composition.
"If major opposition movements could assemble together by the end of the presidential elections, cooperation would be more serious and efficient," Jalaloglu said.
The ADP chairman does not believe in opportunity to establish any opposition union on the eve of the municipal and parliamentary elections.
"People, who believe in its formation, make mistake, because relations amongst opposition will become worse in that period," Jalaloglu said.
Another reason of failure to form union of the opposition movements is their different attitudes toward results of the presidential elections.
"The ADP publicized diametrically opposite position to results of the presidential elections. Our objective is to remove confrontation between the authorities and opposition, as well as civil development," the ADP chairman said.
Sardar Jalaloglu established the right-of-centre ADP in 1991. The party pursued a radical oppositional course with respect to the operating authorities until January 2007. The ADP began to pursue a new political course, providing for dialogues with the authorities in January 2007. Rasul Guliyev, a former chairman of the party, and his supporters protested against the course of the party and left the party and established their Open Society Party.