PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN AZERBAIJAN PROMISE SERIOUS PASSIONS

PanARMENIAN.Net - Passions connected with the presidential election to be held in Azerbaijan October 15 run high. As "Hurriyet" Baku newspaper writes, principal contender for the post of the state leader, acting president Heydar Aliyev was born not in 1923 as it is presented in the documents but in 1919, March 18 in the Sissian region of Armenia. Aliyev has changed the date of his birthday in order to avoid the conscription during the Great Patriotic war. The newspaper considers that the Central Election Committee should clarify this question and refuse Aliyev in registration as a presidential contender. At the same time, as reported by "Press-Center.ru", an initiative group for proposing ex-president of the country Ayaz Mutalibov, as the main state post contender has been founded in Baku. In the words of the initiators, they will use all the means available including mass protest actions for Mutalibov's return to Azerbaijan from Moscow where he has lived as a political emigrant since 1992. Meanwhile, other presidential contender, former first secretary of the Baku city Communist party committee, former Azeri ambassador to Italy Rufat Agayev appealed to the ministry of foreign affairs for providing security for his family. Soon after the arrival in Baku, unknown people threatened him with savage punishment and kidnapping of his child in case he does not withdraw his candidature. Rufat Agayev told "Echo" Baku newspaper.