Baku / 01.02.2018 / Turan: In the upcoming presidential elections in October 2018, the current head of state, Ilham Aliyev, will be the candidate from the ruling New Azerbaijan Party. This was announced today by the Deputy Chairman and Executive Secretary of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, Deputy Prime Minister Ali Ahmedov at a meeting with youth activists on the occasion of Youth Day.
He expressed hope that the youth activists of the party will contribute to the victory of Ilham Aliyev. Thus, 57-year-old Aliyev is already nominated for the fourth time in a row as a presidential candidate. He was elected in the elections of 2003, 2008 and 2013.
In 2009, at the constitutional referendum, restrictions were suspended on the stay of one person as President for no more than two consecutive terms of office.
According to changes in the Constitution in September 2016, the term of office of the President is extended from 5 to 7 years and this norm comes into force from 2018.
According to the election code, presidential elections are scheduled to take place on the third Wednesday of October 2018, in this case on October 17. -06D-
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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"Black Monday in Georgia: Police and special forces guard the doors behind which the 'slaves of Georgian Dream' are destroying our Constitution and mocking our Parliament." This is how Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili commented on the convening of the new parliament on Monday, which is not recognized by the opposition.
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