Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. I.Alizadeh / MP Mubariz Gurbanli, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, stated that the opposition should refuse ideas regarding the formation of election commissions on a parity bases.
There are a lot of opposition parties in Azerbaijan. Only forty-two parties received state registration. How can we divide the composition of election commissions among such a number of parties? The world experience shows that parity bases are defined in compliance with the Parliament composition," Gurbanli noted.
The New Azerbaijan party takes the first place due to the number of its MPs in Parliament.
The composition of the Azerbaijan Election Commission is six representatives from the ruling party, six from parliamentary parties, and six from independent MPs. International organizations recommend introducing corrections to this principle of formation of election commissions. The negotiations between European organizations and the Azerbaijani Government on this issue are in process.