Azerbaijan, Baku, 8 July / corr. Trend A.Aliyev, E.Babayev / President Ilham Aliyev, the chairman of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP), and MP Mehriban Aliyeva, the first lady of Azerbaijan, were elected delegates to the fourth congress of the NAP at the eighth conference of the NAP Sabail district organization, held on 8 July. The forum elected 55 delegates from the District to the next congress.
The fourth congress of the NAP will be held at the beginning of August. The candidature of Aliyev, the current head of state and the chairman of the party, will be nominated for the presidency at the congress.
Zahid Garalov, the chairman of the regional organization and a member of the party, told the conference about the work, done over the period past from the previous conference. Garalov said that currently, the organization unites 20,443 members and 60% of them are young people.
According to Sahib Alekberov, the head of the Sabail District Administration, a total of 39 polling stations are fully prepared for the elections in Sabail District. "However, we should closely work with voters until the beginning of the elections. We should work to fulfill the task set by President Aliyev," he said.
Yusif Mammadov, the rector of the Azerbaijani State Pedagogic University, informed that there were 8,091 members of the NAP at his university.
Bahar Muradova, the vice-speaker of Milli Majlis (the Azerbaijani Parliament), a member of the NAP, stated to the conference that at present, the NAP is a non-alternative political force. As to the presidential elections, the vice-speaker said that the ruling party had a formidable candidate and this was an important fact. She said that successes achieved under President Aliyev's leadership and popular support condition the results of the elections.
Heydar Aliyev, the chairman of the Supreme Majlis of Nakchivan, established the NAP in 1992. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is the current chairman of the ruling party, which has been in power for 15 years.
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