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note: several political parties boycotted the election due to unfair conditions; OSCE observers concluded that the election did not meet international standards

Legislative branch:

unicameral National Assembly or Milli Mejlis (125 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms)

elections: last held on 7 November 2010 (next to be held in November 2015)

election results: percent of vote by party - YAP 45.8%, CSP 1.6%,

Motherland 1.4%, independents 48.2%, other 3.1%; seats by party -

YAP 71, CSP 3, Motherland 2, Democratic Reforms 1, Great Creation 1,

Hope Party 1, Social Welfare 1, Civil Unity 1, Whole Azerbaijan

Popular Front 1, Justice 1, independents 42

Judicial branch:

Supreme Court

Political parties and leaders:

Azerbaijan Democratic Party or ADP [Sardar JALALOGLU]; Civil

Solidarity Party or CSP [Sabir RUSTAMKHANLI]; Civil Unity Party

[Sabir HACIYEV]; Classic People's Front of Azerbaijan [Mirmahmud

MIRALI-OGLU]; Democratic Reform Party [Asim MOLLAZADE]; Great

Creation Party [Fazil Gazanfaroglu MUSTAFAYEV]; Hope (Umid) Party

[Iqbal AGAZADE]; Justice Party [Ilyas ISMAYILOV]; Liberal Party of

Azerbaijan [Lala Shovkat HACIYEVA]; Motherland Party [Fazail

AGAMALI]; Musavat (Equality) [Isa GAMBAR, chairman]; Open Society

Party [Rasul GULIYEV, in exile in the US]; Social Democratic Party

of Azerbaijan or SDP [Araz ALIZADE and Ayaz MUTALIBOV (in exile)];

Social Welfare Party [Hussein KAZIMLI]; United Popular Azerbaijan

Front Party or AXCP [Ali KARIMLI]; Whole Azerbaijan Popular Front

Party [Gudrat HASANGULIYEV]; Yeni (New) Azerbaijan Party or YAP

[President Ilham ALIYEV]

note: opposition parties regularly factionalize and form new parties

Political pressure groups and leaders:

Azerbaijan Public Forum [Eldar NAMAZOV]; Karabakh Liberation

Organization

International organization participation:

ADB, BSEC, CE, CICA, CIS, EAPC, EBRD, ECO, FAO, GCTU, GUAM, IAEA,

IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO,

Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM (observer),

OAS (observer), OIC, OPCW, OSCE, PFP, SECI (observer), UN, UNCTAD,

UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)

Diplomatic representation in the US:

chief of mission: Ambassador Yashar ALIYEV

chancery: 2741 34th Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

telephone: [1] (202) 337–3500