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Tuesday, 20 May 2003
AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION PLANS NEW PROTESTS
By empty (5/20/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Opposition Musavat Party Chairman Isa Gambar, who is also chairman of the Democratic Congress that unites 10 opposition parties, expressed support on 19 May for plans by the Opposition Coordinating Council (MKM), a rival political alignment of nine political parties, to hold further demonstrations to demand that the presidential elections due in October are free and fair. Some 25,000 people attended a demonstration in Baku on 18 May convened by the MKM. The MKM plans to hold further demonstrations in the provinces on 25 May.
Opposition Musavat Party Chairman Isa Gambar, who is also chairman of the Democratic Congress that unites 10 opposition parties, expressed support on 19 May for plans by the Opposition Coordinating Council (MKM), a rival political alignment of nine political parties, to hold further demonstrations to demand that the presidential elections due in October are free and fair. Some 25,000 people attended a demonstration in Baku on 18 May convened by the MKM. The MKM plans to hold further demonstrations in the provinces on 25 May. (Turan)