Azerbaijan, Baku, April 18/Trend, T. Hajiyev
Sulheddin Akbar, who resigned as chairman of the Musavat Party's Supreme Council, is establishing a new party. Meetings in connection with respective organizational works are underway in the regions, Keramet Salayev, a former member of Musavat's Sumgayit Office, told Trend on Monday.
A similar meeting was also held in Sumgait last week. Mostly nonpartisans attended the event.
At that meeting, Akbar spoke about the party's objective.
Salayev told Trend earlier that a new political organization would be established and that its constitutive assembly would be held in May or June.
Having released a statement, some 20 Musavat activists left the party's Sumgait office in January. They explained the step by Musavat's refusal to unite with the PPFA.
Currently, there are ideological disagreements in the party, a number of party members who recently resigned said in a statement.
At an event devoted to the PPFA's 21st anniversary last July 15, Musavat leader Isa Gambar suggested uniting parties that follow the policy of Rasulzadeh-Elchibay. The initial reaction to the proposal came from the PPFA. At its meeting last September, the PPFA decided to join Musavat.
The Musavat Party was established in Baku in October 1911. Its ideology is based upon principles of equality, Turkism, modernism and liberalization. Musavat is a right-centrist party.