What is Azerbaijan preparing for: referendum, Election Code… |
In the last days of 2022 political new about parties law project Azerbaijan internal political has become the main topic of his agenda. As a result of discussions that lasted for about 4 months, the project was re-edited and on December 6 National It passed the second reading in the assembly. The leader of the Umid Party commented on the topic for Pressklub.az Iqbal Aghazade and said that there was a real need for the adoption of such a law.
“You know this is the first time law It was adopted in 1992. True, some amendments were made to it later, but now it is completely different in our country political a system of relations has emerged. Especially, the environment of dialogue formed after the Patriotic War, the expansion of cooperation between the government and the opposition in solving political problems made it necessary to adopt a new law that would increase the weight of political parties in the country. However, some provisions in the initial version of the law caused our objection. These are the minority of the founder when a political party is established 20 years of continuous living in Azerbaijan, the number of founders 200 and other provisions that were removed from the project.
The interesting thing is that Iqbal Aghazade After the adoption of the new law, he said that a referendum should be held to change the Election Code and even the electoral system in Azerbaijan, and touched on the points that could change the country’s political agenda:
“Now we have to think about some issues. For example, what is the purpose of adopting the law on political parties? If the goal is to ensure the development of a multi-party system, then following this law, we must make changes in the Election Code and switch from the majoritarian system to a proportional or mixed system. Parliament application of proportional system in elections National It will form political pluralism and political diversity in the assembly. A democratic opening should follow. Just like in the neighboring countries, we must change our political system through a referendum and organize the transition to a parliamentary regime. reduced the powers of the President, National We need to increase the powers of the Assembly. Already Karabakh problem is almost solved, now the government should try to solve the internal political problems by starting the democratic opening.
Note that some time agoTuran” Director of the Information Agency Guest In his interview with the author of these lines, Aliyev predicted that a referendum on political system change will be held in Azerbaijan in the near future.
Nijat Ismayilov
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