Radical reforms are ongoing to create new qualitative changes in the political system of Azerbaijan.

In the last two years, the modern configurations formed either on the platform of the parliament or political parties have essentially formed a completely different, more democratic system of relations.

Currently, the law on political parties arising from the necessary order of our political system and internal political actors was adopted and created a new stage in the legal foundations of relations within the system.

All these are new realities for Azerbaijan and are of strategic importance in terms of the further development of our national democracy, political and legal relations.

These reforms carried out in our country are supported by the absolute majority of internal national political actors.

Politically active collective thinking and public opinion leaders, whose democratic and legal thinking is formed on objective grounds, are perfect enough to objectively evaluate what is happening.

Because they understand that regardless of what kind of political worldview they are the carriers of, what is happening is an event that should be appreciated in terms of common social and political interests.

All this forms a good foundation for the future political generation in terms of the development of democracy and its reconciliation with the legal system.

Ilgar Mammadov's manipulative democracy

Unfortunately, in terms of political and democratic thinking, some politicians who are carriers of the manipulative "democracy" of global imperialism view the reconciliation between democracy and law through the lens of anarchist democracy and reject legal norms and laws that create the basis for political activity.

Undoubtedly, this kind of approach is, in fact, a case of appropriation of export democracy, which the West imposes on other countries, which does not exist even in Western democracy.

Because they understand very well in the West that there can be no democracy without law.

That is why they call democracy the rule of the majority limited by human rights.

As you can see, the expression of limitation is fully included in the definition of democracy.

Otherwise, there would be no difference between democracy and anarchy.

Therefore, laws are not restrictive of democracy,

it should be seen as a means of protection.

However, the chairman of ReAl Party, Ilgar Mammadov, for some reason looks at the law "On Political Parties" in which he and his party members actively participate in public discussions, through unrealistic glasses and conducts an objective assessment.

For example, Ilgar Mammadov tries to criticize Azerbaijan's political and legal system with his conventional political philosophy and conventional analyzes in his thoughts beginning with the sentence "Bakhtiyar Hajiyev would not have been arrested today, if...".

Undoubtedly, criticism, even self-criticism, is a very useful thing, but only if it is objective... Unfortunately, when criticism is mixed with prejudice, even criticism is not useful in the public interest.

On the contrary, it becomes a tool that manipulates it.

And Ilgar Mammadov does it willingly.

4 arguments of the chairman of the ReAl party that do not tolerate criticism

For example, he writes that "one month ago, on November 12, we offered him a 4-point agenda for renewing our political dialogue with the authorities, which is open to additions and changes."

The first of these was the release of all persons recognized as political prisoners under the PACE criteria.

However, the authorities have not yet responded."

Ilgar Mammadov is not telling the truth.

The truth of the matter is that PACE does not have uniform criteria for those arrested and recognized as political prisoners.

The European Court of Human Rights issued 42 decisions regarding the violation of Article 18+5 of the European Convention (politically motivated arrest) based on complaints from Azerbaijan.

Those 42 decisions were issued in 10 cases.

An analysis of statistics taken from the official website of the European Court of Human Rights shows that

The total number of decisions related to the RaAl Party is 21 (only 19 decisions related to the ReAl Party + 2 decisions on the "Mammadli case" (since it is related to the "Rashad Hasanov et al. case")).

These decisions have been fully implemented.

Let's repeat, fully executed.

Apparently, party chairman Ilgar Mammadov deliberately does not tell the truth about the mentioned issue, on the contrary, he manipulates it.

Despite the implementation of all decisions related to party members, it returns to this topic again.

Why?

See, the answer to this question is hidden in the goal of Ilgar Mammadov.

I wonder if its goal is democracy and human rights, or anarchy and lawlessness?

fully implemented.

Apparently, party chairman Ilgar Mammadov deliberately does not tell the truth about the mentioned issue, on the contrary, he manipulates it.

Despite the implementation of all decisions related to party members, it returns to this topic again.

Why?

See, the answer to this question is hidden in the goal of Ilgar Mammadov.

I wonder if its goal is democracy and human rights, or anarchy and lawlessness?

fully implemented.

Apparently, party chairman Ilgar Mammadov deliberately does not tell the truth about the mentioned issue, on the contrary, he manipulates it.

Despite the implementation of all decisions related to party members, it returns to this topic again.

Why?

See, the answer to this question is hidden in the goal of Ilgar Mammadov.

I wonder if its goal is democracy and human rights, or anarchy and lawlessness?

The second question that worries Ilgar Mammadov is that all the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on election violations in Azerbaijan have not been fully implemented.

The situation regarding this issue is that the Election Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan was adopted on May 27, 2003.

The representatives of the political parties who participated in the elections to the Milli Majlis, as a rule, applied to the European Court of Human Rights claiming that the election results were not calculated correctly.

The decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in this regard consist of 2 parts (payment of compensation and improvement of the Electoral Code).

It should be noted that 297 additions and changes have been made to the Election Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan by 23 laws.

Another issue worries the chairman of the ReAl party. He believes that Azerbaijan ranks last in the implementation of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights.

Ilgar Mammadov's third claim, like the other two above, is completely unfounded.

This is also confirmed by the official statistics on the execution of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights.

Although the official website of the European Court of Human Rights does not have specific statistics on the execution of decisions, there is the number of decisions issued in the last 1 year and during the entire period of the court's activity.

So, according to the statistics of 2021, 36 decisions were made on Azerbaijan.

However, after our country, the countries with the most decisions are as follows: 37 decisions on Bulgaria, 37 decisions on Croatia, 39 decisions on Italy, 68 decisions on Moldova, 78 decisions on Turkey, 95 decisions on Romania,

197 decisions on Ukraine and 232 decisions on the Russian Federation.

The number of decisions adopted by the European Court of Human Rights regarding Azerbaijan is 251.

After Azerbaijan, the countries with the most decisions are as follows: 285 decisions for Belgium, 359 decisions for Germany, 364 decisions for Portugal, 373 decisions for Slovenia, 404 decisions for Austria, 409 decisions for Slovakia, 474 decisions for Croatia, 541 decisions for Moldova, 563 decisions on Great Britain 614 decisions on Hungary 774 decisions on Bulgaria 1060 decisions on Greece 1062 decisions on France 1220 decisions on Poland 1673 decisions on Romania 1696 decisions on Ukraine 2466 decisions on Italy 3116 decisions on Russian Federation and 3820 decisions on Turkey.

Apparently, Azerbaijan is not in the last place in the official statistics of the European Court.

The Council of Europe Cabinet of Ministers supervises the implementation of decisions.

Each decision is negotiated in a working order at the national government level.

For this reason, the claim of the party chairman is groundless.

Lack of logic or political bias?

Finally, the fourth unrealistic claim of the chairman of the ReAl Party is that the newly prepared law on political parties was not prepared taking into account the democratic standards and the way Azerbaijan has traveled so far.

It is true that this claim is a kind of imported claim for Ilgar Mammadov, so it is somewhat incomprehensible either due to a translation defect or a lack of logic.

However, this is not true either.

Because there are no general legal standards regulating the activities of political parties in international practice.

Each country has a law adapted to its political environment.

Even the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe gave different interpretations to the laws of different countries with the same name, and these interpretations imply different positions on the same issues.

The social base of the RaAl Party does not exist, and therefore the party chairman clearly understands that he will not be able to gather members in accordance with the requirements of the new law.

In this regard, Ilgar Mammadov turns to political speculation and populism and creates agitation around the law.

However, let's note again that 132 of the 233 recommendations adopted by the Venice Commission in 2010 regarding the legal regulation of the activity of political parties refer only to the status and activity of the political party.

Of those 132 recommendations, 112 were taken into account in the law on political parties.

The guidelines adopted by the Venice Commission in 2020 are a continuation of the recommendations adopted in 2010.

At the same time, when adopting this law in Azerbaijan, reference was made to the relevant legislative experience of 24 countries (Germany, USA, France, Sweden, Turkey, Netherlands, Czech Republic, etc.).

) The draft law was posted on the website of the Mili Majlis on September 7 for comments and suggestions, the Center for Social Research conducted a public opinion survey on the main issues reflected in the draft law, taking into account the public importance of the draft, 2 public hearings were held regarding the draft law (of political parties, with the participation of non-governmental organizations, political scientists and social media representatives) was held.

More than 250 proposals from 47 political parties were included in the draft law, and 110 additions and changes were made after the hearings.

In other words, the law was prepared taking into account the majority of opinions and suggestions of the absolute majority, as well as international law and experience.

As it can be seen, in fact, all the answers to the questions that the Chairman of the ReAl Party Ilgar Mammadov is looking for are available and accessible in open sources.

However, to notice this, you need to check the directives sent from abroad to manipulate the political environment of Azerbaijan.

Apparently, Ilgar Mammadov did not have time or desire for this.

That's why he thought that he was making a "smart" political move by hastily transferring the destructive theses of imported democracy to our national political environment.

However, the result was completely ineffective in terms of the desired goals.

Hikmet Babaoglu