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Friday, 27 June 2003
AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION DENOUNCES \'CULT OF PERSONALITY\'
By empty (6/27/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Meeting in Baku on 25 June, the leaders of six opposition parties and several other prominent opposition politicians endorsed a \"Charter on the Cult of Personality\" drafted by AMAL, the movement that represents Azerbaijan\'s intelligentsia, zerkalo.az reported on 26 June. The charter condemns the antidemocratic methods of propaganda resorted to by authoritarian regimes; the selection of government personnel on the basis of their family or regional origin; attempts to establish a hereditary leadership, meaning President Aliev\'s alleged plan to ensure that his son, Ilham, succeeds him as president; and efforts to undermine democratization, political pluralism, and the transition to a market economy.
Meeting in Baku on 25 June, the leaders of six opposition parties and several other prominent opposition politicians endorsed a \"Charter on the Cult of Personality\" drafted by AMAL, the movement that represents Azerbaijan\'s intelligentsia, zerkalo.az reported on 26 June. The charter condemns the antidemocratic methods of propaganda resorted to by authoritarian regimes; the selection of government personnel on the basis of their family or regional origin; attempts to establish a hereditary leadership, meaning President Aliev\'s alleged plan to ensure that his son, Ilham, succeeds him as president; and efforts to undermine democratization, political pluralism, and the transition to a market economy. (RFE/RL)