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Novella Cafaroghlu: "I do not believe that Ilham Aliyev will undertake the step to introduce changes to the Constitution regarding the presidency term"

17 December 2008 [17:47] - TODAY.AZ
The year of 2009 will be a difficult year in the sphere of human rights, in the light of the initiative of the Yeni Azerbaijan party to introduce changes to the Constitution in order to lift restrictions on the number of terms of election as a president of one and the same person", said Saida Gojamanly, head of the bureau of human rights and observation of legality at today's press conference to the Monitoring Group of Human Rights Activists.

"Democratic Azerbaijan has disappeared since yesterday when the executive secretary of the Yeni Azerbaijan party Ali Ahmedov voiced the initiative about changes to the Constitution. He can not speak on behalf of the whole people", said she,

Chairman of the Association of Women's Rights Protection of Dilara Aliyeva Novella Cafaroghlu considers that the head of the state will not undertake this step.

"I do not believe that Ilham Aliyev, declaring the observation of principles of democracy, will accept changes to the Constitution regarding election of a president. This is the initiative of the party, whose activists are afraid of losing their power and, therefore, they demand to change the Constitution", said she.

/Day.Az/

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