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Politics of Azerbaijan
Constitution
Constitutional court
Human rights
Head of state
President
Ilham Aliyev
Vice President: Mehriban Aliyeva
Office of the President
Executive
Prime Minister
Ali Asadov
Cabinet of Ministers
National Assembly
National Assembly
Speaker: Sahiba Gafarova
Judiciary
Judiciary
Administrative divisions
Administrative divisions
Elections
Presidential: 2013
2018
2024
Parliamentary: 2015
2020
Political parties
Foreign relations
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Minister: Jeyhun Bayramov
Diplomatic missions of / in Azerbaijan
Nationality law
Passport
Visa requirements
Visa policy
Azerbaijan–European Union relations
Azerbaijan–NATO relations
Armenia–Azerbaijan relations
Azerbaijan–China relations
Azerbaijan–France relations
Azerbaijan–Georgia relations
Azerbaijan–Germany relations
Azerbaijan–Iran relations
Azerbaijan–Israel relations
Azerbaijan–Italy relations
Azerbaijan–Netherlands relations
Azerbaijan–Poland relations
Azerbaijan–Russia relations
Azerbaijan–Spain relations
Azerbaijan–Turkey relations
Azerbaijan–Ukraine relations
Azerbaijan–United Kingdom relations
Azerbaijan–United States relations
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The Politics of Azerbaijan take place in an authoritarian system where elections are not free and fair, political opponents are repressed, civil rights are limited, human rights abuses are widespread, corruption is rampant, and power is concentrated in the hands of President Ilham Aliyev and his extended family.[1][2][3]
Azerbaijan is nominally a semi-presidential republic, with the President of Azerbaijan as the head of state, and the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan as head of government. Executive power is exercised by the president and the government. Checks and balances are nominally ensured by the legislature (Azerbaijan's National Assembly) and the Judiciary but both institutions are in practice firmly controlled by the executive.[4][5]
The politics of Azerbaijan have since 1969 been dominated by the Aliyev family. Heydar Aliyev governed Soviet Azerbaijan from 1969 to 1982 as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, and as President of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2003 after seizing power in the aftermath of a 1993 military coup.[6][7] Ilham Aliyev, Heydar's son, was installed as president in 2003.
^"Azerbaijan: Country Profile". Freedom House. Retrieved July 3, 2021.
^"Everything you need to know about human rights in Azerbaijan". www.amnesty.org. Retrieved July 3, 2021.
^"World Report 2021: Rights Trends in Azerbaijan". Human Rights Watch. December 10, 2020. Retrieved July 3, 2021.
^LaPorte, Jody (2016). "Semi-presidentialism in Azerbaijan". In Elgie, Robert; Moestrup, Sophia (eds.). Semi-Presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia. London: Palgrave Macmillan (published May 15, 2016). pp. 91–117. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-38781-3_4. ISBN 978-1-137-38780-6. LCCN 2016939393. OCLC 6039791976. Retrieved October 13, 2017. LaPorte examines the dynamics of semi-presidentialism in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan's regime is a curious hybrid, in which semi-presidential institutions operate in the larger context of authoritarianism. The author compares formal Constitutional provisions with the practice of politics in the country, suggesting that formal and informal sources of authority come together to enhance the effective powers of the presidency. In addition to the considerable formal powers laid out in the Constitution, Azerbaijan's president also benefits from the support of the ruling party and informal family and patronage networks. LaPorte concludes by discussing the theoretical implications of this symbiosis between formal and informal institutions in Azerbaijan's semi-presidential regime.
^"Azerbaijan: Nations in Transit 2023 Country Report". Freedom House. Retrieved December 31, 2023.
^Waal, Thomas de (2013), "Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War", Black Garden, New York University Press, pp. 106, 148–149, 227, doi:10.18574/nyu/9780814770825.001.0001/html?lang=en, ISBN 978-0-8147-7082-5
^Altstadt, Audrey L. (1997), Parrott, Bruce; Dawisha, Karen (eds.), "Azerbaijan's struggle toward democracy", Conflict, Cleavage, and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus, Democratization and Authoritarianism in Post-Communist Societies, Cambridge University Press, pp. 110–155, ISBN 978-0-521-59731-9
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