Azerbaijan's ruling party develops list of candidates for parliamentary elections

The ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) has prepared a list of candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections.

"The party's list of candidates for the parliamentary elections is ready. Candidates will be presented to the public after the official start of the elections," NAP Deputy Executive Secretary, MP Siyavush Novruzov told Trend today.

The parliamentary elections will be held on November 7, 2010. Previous legislative elections were held in November 2005. Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan are held by the majority system in 125 constituencies. Novruzov said the party's ranks consist of more than 500,000 members.

"All of them are decent people. Unfortunately, only 125 MPs will be elected to the parliament. In this regard, we have carefully reviewed the candidacies by the NAP," Novruzov added.

The NAP is represented in by 64 deputies the parliament.

"We will put forward candidates in all constituencies and will try to get more seats," he said.

NAP was established by the chairman of the Supreme Majlis of Nakhchivan Heydar Aliyev in 1992. The current President Ilham Aliyev is the chairman of the Party which has been ruling for 17 years already.


/Trend/