Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. I.Alizadeh / Araz Alizadeh, the Co-Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Azerbaijan (SDPA), considers the nomination of one candidate from the opposition party for the upcoming presidential elections 2008 to be impossible.
"The idea regarding nomination of one candidate from opposition camp aimed to suppress pre-election campaign of candidates. Such discussions create imagination that the result of the elections depends on nomination of one candidate from opposition camp," Alizadeh said.
Presently, the Azerbaijani opposition camp is holding discussions to define the candidate to participate at the upcoming presidential election. Similar discussions have been held in the past with no agreement being reached.
Alizadeh noted that his party was a left-wing party which cannot support the candidature from the right-wing party. There is no other left-wing party in Azerbaijan except for the SDPA and therefore the left-wing party cannot choose one candidate.
SDPA is a left-wing party of Azerbaijan. The leader of the party is Ayaz Mutallibov, the former first President of Azerbaijan.