Azerbaijan’s Ruling Party Urges President to Dissolve Parliament
- Call for snap election follows Aliyev’s purge of top officials
- President extended his rule for seven years in 2018 elections
Ali Ahmadov speaks in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 28.
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Azerbaijan’s ruling party urged President Ilham Aliyev to dissolve parliament and pave the way for the first snap elections of lawmakers in the Caspian Sea nation.
The move would allow political changes begun by Aliyev in recent months to extend to “renewing parliament,” Ali Ahmadov, executive secretary of the New Azerbaijan Party, told reporters Thursday in the capital, Baku. He didn’t specify what changes may take place or when parliament may be dissolved.