2005 Azerbaijani parliamentary election

2005 Azerbaijani parliamentary election

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All 125 seats in the National Assembly 63 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Seats +/– New Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev 61 −14 Musavat Isa Gambar 5 +3 Civic Solidarity Fazail Agamali 3 0 Motherland Sabir Rustamkhanli 2 +1 Hope İqbal Ağazadə [az] 1 New Justice İlyas İsmayılov [az] 1 New DİP Asim Mollazadə [az] 1 New BAXCP Qüdrət Həsənquliyev [az] 1 New Great Order Fazil Mustafa 1 New Civic Unity Sabir Hacıyev [az] 1 New Social Prosperity Xanhüseyn Kazımlı 1 0 Popular Front Ali Karimli 1 −5 Independents – 46 +16 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Speaker before Speaker after Murtuz Alasgarov Ogtay Asadov

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Parliamentary elections were held in Azerbaijan on 6 November 2005. They pitted candidates of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) against opposition led by the Azadlıq (Freedom) bloc of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, Musavat and the Azerbaijan Democratic Party. The NAP won 61 of the 125 seats.

The elections were not free and fair.^[1] Opposition parties were intimidated during the election, campaign workers for opposition parties were imprisoned, and there were allegations of vote-rigging.^[1][2] The coverage by media, whether state-run or private, was overwhelmingly pro-government.^[1] Dissident media stations were shut down and journalists were repressed.^[1] Freedom of assembly was restricted, preventing opposition parties from holding rallies.^[1] Workers were threatened with dismissal unless they voted for the incumbent government.^[1] In 2010, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Aliyev regime had engaged in electoral fraud.^[3]