By empty (7/18/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijan\'s Central Election Commission met on 18 July and formally certified the candidacy of President Heidar Aliev for re-election in the October presidential election. Commission officials dismissed 1,256 of the nearly 52,000 signed petitions in support of the candidacy before registering the incumbent president as the candidate of the \"Yeni Azerbaican\" Party. (ANS).The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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