Wednesday, 11 June 2003

MORE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES NOMINATED IN AZERBAIJAN

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By empty (6/11/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

At its fourth congress in Baku on 11 June, the pro-presidential Ana-Vatan party nominated two candidates for the 17 October presidential election --incumbent President Heidar Aliev and his son Ilham. Neither man is a member of Ana-Vatan. Also on 11 June, delegates to a congress of the Adalet Party unanimously proposed the party\'s Chairman Ilyas Ismailov as its presidential candidate.
At its fourth congress in Baku on 11 June, the pro-presidential Ana-Vatan party nominated two candidates for the 17 October presidential election --incumbent President Heidar Aliev and his son Ilham. Neither man is a member of Ana-Vatan. Also on 11 June, delegates to a congress of the Adalet Party unanimously proposed the party\'s Chairman Ilyas Ismailov as its presidential candidate. Ismailov served in the 1980s as prosecutor and under the Azerbaijan Popular Front government in 1992-93 as justice minister. He resigned from that post when Aliev returned to power in Azerbaijan in 1993. (Turan)
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