NKR MFA: each Azeri election resembles a show

PanARMENIAN.Net - Every time elections in Azerbaijan resemble a performance, NKR Foreign Minister's Advisor Ara Puluzyan said when commentting on the current situation in Azerbaijan.



"In addition, everything looks extremely false, as the most important factor - democratic process, without which fair elections are impossible - misses. Even Saddam Hussein, before the U.S. attacking Iran, organized "elections" in his country and as a result polled 90 per cent of votes. However, that did not help him. Azerbaijan is also doomed to defeat in this sense: it successively moves to the dictatorship," he said.



It is dangerous to see only what is happening on the stage titled "Presidential elections in Azerbaijan". It is more important to examine what is going on behind the scenes, according to him.



"Pluralism of opinions does not exist in Azerbaijan and the main oppositional parties' refusal to participate in the elections is a striking illustration of this. What condition the poor opposition has been driven to that it boycotts the elections from the very beginning, without entering into a struggle?! This means that it is completely deprived of any opportunity to express its own opinion and that it does not want to be satisfied only with an episodic role in this performance.



Being a person, dealing with the problems of Iran, where presidential elections are also going to be held in summer, I would like to mention that the situation in this country is incomparably better. Here we can see struggle of opinions, there are no persons beyond the criticism, there are mechanisms, the use of which averts the coming of dictatorship. Unfortunately, similar mechanisms do not exist in Azerbaijan.



Unfortunately, some European structures, which neglect the anti-democratic processes in Azerbaijan, and do not show similar attitude to the analogous problems in Azerbaijan and, for example, in Iran, Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh, obviously connive at the aggravation of the situation. The use of double standards, Euro structures' flirting with the Azeri authorities, the recognition of the election results in any state of affairs, do not stimulate the development of the civil society in this country. By the way, in the NKR, in spite of its non-recognition by the international community, the elections are held more transparently and democratically, which is testified, at least, by the parties' active participation. An alternative and an opportunity of a choice exist in our republic, unlike our "recognized" neighbors.



Democratic institutions should function in a normal country. And democracy is not merely elections; it is a complex and multilateral process, which is achieved only by successive and purposeful steps. Against the background of a complete absence of any signs of democracy, a "game" of elections looks unconvincing, absurd and dangerous for the Azeri nation as well," Ara Puluzyan said.