The ruling New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) has prepared the initial list of its candidates for the upcoming presidential elections, YAP deputy executive secretary, Siyavush Novruzov, said.
“The pre-election campaign is over. MP's activities, people’s attitude toward them, their presence in electoral campaign in districts, holding meetings with voters, legislative initiatives in parliament in order to meet interests of voters, promoting Azerbaijan within international organizations, loyalty to the state were studied," APA cited him as saying.
"We carried out works in other constituencies, as the YAP plans to nominate candidates for all constituencies. We sometimes didn’t nominate candidates from constituencies where there were well-known intellectuals, respected people, and leaders of ruling parties. This issue depends on the decision of YAP Management Board,” he added.
He noted that there are some YAP members, who were not elected parliamentarians as they were nominated or some of them were once elected as parliamentarians, took an active part in the activity of the party.
As for the fact that what percentage of the current MPs from YAP is not included in the initial list, Novruzov said this issue will be decided by the party’s leadership.
