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    Emil Lazarian
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1321 candidates run for 125-seat parliament in Azerbaijan snap election

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 16:15, 8 February, 2020

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 8, ARMENPRESS. February 8 is campaign silence in Azerbaijan as the country will head to the polling stations to vote in the early election of parliament tomorrow.

1321 candidates are running for the 125 seats in parliament, the country’s Central Electoral Commission had announced earlier.

The decision to call snap elections was made at the November 28 special session of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (YAP), which is led by President Ilham Aliyev. The decision for snap elections was explained by saying that the current parliament doesn’t correspond to the political course led by Aliyev and doesn’t participate in the reforms. It was sent to the country’s high court and after approval President Aliyev signed an order on setting snap elections on February 9, 2020, just months ahead of regular scheduled elections.

Aliyev launched a shakeup in his administration from spring 2018, when then-PM Artur Rasizade, 83, was sacked and replaced by 71-year-old Novruz Mamedov, who in turn was sacked in October 2019.  Ali Hasanov was appointed to replace Deputy PM Hajibula Abutalibov.

In the beginning of 2020, Samir Nuriyev was appointed to serve as head of the presidential administration, while Ali Asadov was named the new prime minister.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan




Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS