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Parliamentary elections will be held in Azerbaijan on 1 September 2024. [1] They were originally scheduled to take place in November 2024, but were brought forward after parliament was dissolved in June 2024. [2]
The elections were originally scheduled to take place in November 2024. However, in late June 2024 MPs asked President Ilham Aliyev to dissolve the National Assembly and call elections in September to avoid holding them during the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference to be hosted in Baku from 11 to 22 November. Despite criticism from opposition parties, the measure was approved by the Constitutional Court on 27 June, which allowed Aliyev to dissolve parliament on 28 June and set 1 September as the date for the elections. [2]
The 125 members of the National Assembly are elected in single-member constituencies using the first-past-the-post system. [3]
The politics of Azerbaijan take place in an authoritarian system where elections are not free and fair, political opponents are repressed, civil rights are limited, human rights abuses are widespread, corruption is rampant, and power is concentrated in the hands of President Ilham Aliyev and his extended family.
The New Azerbaijan Party is the ruling political party in Azerbaijan, founded on 21 November 1992 under the leadership of Heydar Aliyev. After his election as President of Azerbaijan on 3 October 1993, and the party's victory at 1995 parliamentary elections, YAP became the ruling party, a position it has held since. President Ilham Aliyev has been chairman of YAP since its 3rd congress held on 26 March 2005.
The National Assembly, also transliterated as Milli Mejlis, is the legislative branch of government in Azerbaijan. The unicameral National Assembly has 125 deputies: previously 100 members were elected for five-year terms in single-seat constituencies and 25 were members elected by proportional representation; as of the latest election, however, all 125 deputies are returned from single-member constituencies.
The Azerbaijani National Guard is an armed force of the Government of Azerbaijan, and operates as a semi-independent entity as well as the a reserve component of the Azerbaijan Army. The Special State Protection Service (SSPS) of Azerbaijan is a military unit subordinate to the President of Azerbaijan. The missions of the Azerbaijani National Guard are to protect government facilities such as the National Parliament, and the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan as well as foreign heads of state and government in Azerbaijan.
The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, is an independent public organization, with a status of a legal entity, which passed registration in the Ministry of Justice of the Azerbaijani Republic. It is also known as the Azerbaijan National Olympic Committee and by the acronym AzMOK or AZMOC. The charter of the organization is recognized by the International Olympic Committee, in 1993. The organization represents the country at the international Olympic Games. It acts on the basis of the Olympic Charter and also the Law of the Azerbaijani Republic about enterprises and public organizations. Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan, is the president of the committee since 1997.
Tahir Yunis oghluAliyev was the Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan, Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan Republic and Chairman of State Customs Committee.
Ogtay Sabir oglu Asadov is an Azerbaijani politician who served as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan between 2005 and 2020.
Ziyafat Abbas oglu Asgarov is a professor and an Azerbaijani politician serving as the First Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan.
Aslan Ahmad Aslanov is an Azerbaijani journalist. From 2018 to 2022, he was chairman of the board of the Azerbaijan State News Agency (AZERTAC).
Azay Guliyev is the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly General Committee on Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment, Chair of the Silk Road Support Group within the OSCE PA, Coordinator of the Baku Parliamentary Platform for Dialogue and Cooperation, Head of Delegation of Azerbaijan to the OSCE PA and the Member of Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Adil Aliyev is the president of Azerbaijan Kickboxing Federation, a Member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan since 10 March 2020.
Sayyad Aran or Sayyad Salahly is an Azerbaijani social-political figure, candidate of philological sciences (2005), one of the founders of the New Azerbaijan Party, writer-publicist, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan of the first class. He has been a member of the National Assembly (Azerbaijan), deputy of the 1st and 2nd convocation of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 1995-2005, first deputy chairman of the State Committee on Affairs with Religious Associations of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Honored journalist of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Siyavush Dunyamali oghlu Novruzov is a Member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan is the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth convocation Member of the Milli Mejlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan, chairman of the Committee on Regional Affairs of the Milli Mejlis, Deputy Executive Secretary of the New Azerbaijan Party (YAP), DPhil in Law.
The diplomatic relations between Azerbaijan and Montenegro established in 2008 after Azerbaijan recognized the independence of Montenegro. Azerbaijan has a Diplomatic Office in Podgorica. Montenegro has an embassy in Baku.
Ali Hidayat oghlu Asadov is an Azerbaijani politician serving as the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan following his appointment to the post on 8 October 2019 by president Ilham Aliyev.
Parliamentary elections were held in Azerbaijan on 9 February 2020. They were originally scheduled to take place in November 2020, but were brought forward after parliament was dissolved in December 2019. Opposition parties accused President Ilham Aliyev of limiting their ability to campaign and called for a boycott of the election.
Mukhtar Bahadur oghlu Babayev is an Azerbaijani politician who is Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan Republic. He has worked in various roles for the Azerbaijan state-owned oil company SOCAR since the 1990s.
Sahiba Ali gizi Gafarova is an Azerbaijani politician and academic. She is chairwoman of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan since 2020.
Ramin Mammadov Alamshah oglu (Azerbaijani: Ramin Məmmədov Aləmşah oğlu; Chairman of State Committee on Affairs with Religious Associations, Member of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan, deputy chairman of the State Committee for Work with Diaspora of the Republic of Azerbaijan, point person for contacts with Armenian residents living in the Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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