Azerbaijan, Baku, 23 July / Trend corr. E.Babayev / MP Ali Masimli, Chairman of the Organization Committee of the Independent Democrats Union Party, made a decision to support another candidate in the upcoming presidential elections. "If the Independent Democrats Union Party will start its full activity then we will participate in the elections as a party. Therefore, we will participate through indirect ways in the elections," Masimli told rend News on 23 July.
Azerbaijan will host the presidential elections on 15 October. Musavat party has already nominated its Chairman Isa Gambar, Azerbaijan Democratic Party - Sardar Jalaloglu, the Greens Party nominated Mais Gulaliyev, the Popular Front Party of Unified Azerbaijan nominated Gudrat Hasanguliyev and Musair Musavat nominated Hafiz Hajiyev. The head of the public forum For Azerbaijan Eldar Namazov stands for presidency as an independent candidate. The governing New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) will nominate country's current President Ilham Aliyev. Pro-governmental parties Ana Vatan and Social Prosperity Party intend to support Ilham Aliyev at the elections. Bloc Azadlig uniting three opposition parties (Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, Citizen and Development Party, Liberal Party) intends to boycott the elections.
Masimli said that he would protect another candidate participating in the elections. "When the election candidates' program would be announced we would make a final decsion regarding this issue", Masimli stated.
Masimli was the head of the Economic Management Department under the Presidential Administration and Senior Advisor of the Social and Economic Development Department in 1991, Chairman of the Azerbaijani Foreign Investment Committee, fisrt Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the State Economy and Planning Committee, Deputy Prime Minister, Economy Minister in 1992, as well as President of the Public organization 'Union of Independent Economists'from 1993 to 2005. In 2003, Masimli established the Organization Committee with an aim to establish the Union of Free Emocrats party. On 6 November 2005, Masimli was elected an MP from Shaki.
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