Central Election Commission (CEC) today approved two other presidential candidates, Ismail Yusifov, and Elshan Hasanov, both independent. Before 2011 Yusifov was a member of the party "Classic" Popular Front, and Hasanov appears as the head of the "Socialist Party", which has no state registration.
Earlier, the CEC approved 12 candidates, including the current president, the head of the party "Yeni Azerbaijan" Ilham Aliyev; the head of the party "Azadlig" Ahmed Oruj; self-promoter Ilgar Altay; Chairman of "Umid" party, Iqbal Aghazadeh; the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, Fuad Aliyev; the head of the ACDP, Ali Aliyev; leader of the United Popular Front of Azerbaijan, Gudrat Hasanguliyev; head of the Social Democratic Party, Araz Alizadeh; Chairman of "Modern Musavat" Hafiz Hajiyev; self-promoter, MP Zahid Oruj; chairman of the National Revival Party, MP Faraj Guliyev; and Director of the Center for the "East-West", Arastun Orujlu.
Documents of the leaders of the Justice Party, MP Ilyas Ismailov and arrested the leader of REAL, Ilgar Mamedov, have also been submitted to the CEC. However, a lawyer was not admitted to Ilgar Mamedov, and his signature on the documents was not certified. The date of the submission of signature lists will expire at 18:00 on September 9. -06D-
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