Musavat leader nominated for presidency

A Wednesday meeting of the Musavat Party’s Assembly nominated the party leader Isa Qambar for presidency, the party has told AssA-Irada. The gathering also decided to set up the party’s election headquarters, as the party’s Deputy Chairman Arif Hacili was appointed chairman of the headquarters. Also attending the meeting were executives of the parties incorporated in «Our Azerbaijan» election bloc.

Mr. Qambar comes as the eleventh candidature nominated by political parties, as Yunus Oguz (from National Union), Elsad Musayev (Great Azerbaijan), Araz Alizada (Social Democrat), Ali Karimli (PFPA-reformers), Qudrat Hasanquliyev (PFPA-unifiers), Lala-Sovkat Haciyeva (Liberal), Etibar Mammadov (PNIA), Ilyas Ismayilov (Adalat), and Heydar Aliyev and Ilham Aliyev (Motherland) have also been nominated for presidency.*