Azerbaijan, Baku, July 20 / Trend A. Huseynbala /
Azerbaijani ruling party intends to nominate one candidate in each municipality.
"We will try to achieve plenty of privileges in municipalities for our candidates to get seats in majority of municipalities," deputy executive secretary of New Azerbaijan ruling party Mubariz Gurbanli told media on July 20.
Municipal elections are scheduled for December 2009 in Azerbaijan but parliamentary elections - autumn 2010. Earlier, municipal elections were held in 1999 and 2004.
The Azerbaijani parliament approved the law Union of Several Municipalities in Azerbaijan in May. Upon the law, number of municipalities will be reduced from 2,757 to 1,766 in Azerbaijan.
Gurbanli said that presently slogans on election program and major trends are being determined. "We hope that our agitation and other operations, as well as policy implemented by the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and people to be vote for this policy will support candidates nominated by our party," organization men of New Azerbaijan Party.
He said that members of the party will be recommended not to nominate their candidates for municipal elections independently. "If party nominated their candidates, participation of New Azerbaijan Party with two candidates in one plot can cause misunderstanding in district. In any case, members of the party are free in their choice. But I think that member of the party must not consider nomination of its candidature as appropriate beyond official list of the organization," Gurbanli said.
New Azerbaijan party was established by Azerbaijani national leader Heydar Aliyev in 1992. That time he was chairman of Supreme Majlis of Nakhchivan. Presently, the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev heads this party.
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