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    NEW POLITICAL SHOW IN AZERBAIJAN
    By Ivan Gharibyan

    news.am
    Nov 2 2009
    Armenia

    A new political show, "local elections", is being put on in
    Azerbaijan. The election campaign is to reach its culmination on the
    New Year eve. So Ilham Aliyev, the son of "the national leader Heydar
    Aliyev" will have something to celebrate. It is the right moment,
    as Azerbaijan has lately been "unlucky" in the international arena:
    it has even come to controversies with the "big brother", Turkey.

    Now it is an excellent opportunity to show the triumph of Azerbaijani
    democracy, and the ones that will take notice of the event throughout
    the world will laugh heartily. This can be the only reaction to the
    reports like "A concert on the occasion of the end of the elections
    in the Khachmass region began at 7:00 p.m." or "More than 93% turnout
    in Nakhichevan."

    The ruling party New Azerbaijan has a lot of work to do. Although the
    present number of municipalities is 1,764 against the previous 2,757,
    the ruling partocrats have to "spare no effort." The supporters
    of the Aliyev clan have to nominate one candidate in most of the
    municipalities, form a bloc with unaffiliated people (10-15 per cent
    of posts intended for them) and, for show, let the Opposition to have
    some seats.

    Active work is in progress. Azeri mass media report that over 1,000
    candidates of the New Azerbaijan Party have submitted subscription
    lists and got registered at election commissions. As regards the
    Opposition, which is in information blockade, it has nothing to do
    but put up with its role of an "appendage".

    The greatest achievement of modern-day Azeri democracy is
    closely following the principle of appointing the head of the Baku
    administration. Mayor of Baku is appointed by the President himself,
    and no one is going to grant the Baku residents the right to elect
    their Mayor.

    Of course, with the present alignment of political forces, or rather a
    complete lack of any alternative to the Aliyev clan, a ruling party
    member would in any case fill the post. With this power system,
    however, the Azerbaijani President should not, time and again, claim
    his country to be "matchless" in the region. It is really so, though.

    Neither Armenian nor Georgian TV viewers will ever see the picture
    of the ex-president and "national leader" appear in the upper corner
    of the screen every holiday.
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