The Central Election Commission (CEC) stopped deputy powers of Asef Hajiyev due to appointment him as a Secretary General of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), based in Istanbul.
Hajiyev was a member of parliament since 1995. He also is a Head of the International Relations Department of the ruling party "Yeni Azerbaijan". At present, the Azerbaijani parliament has five vacant seats. The next parliamentary elections will be held in November 2015.
According to the law, the election for the vacant position are not held until the next elections if there is less than six months.
In practice, however, over the past 10 years no elect ion were conducted for the vacant places.-03B06-
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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