YEREVAN, OCTOBER 3. ARMINFO. The incumbent Azeri president Haydar Aliev has withdrawn his presidential candidacy in favor of his son, Azeri prime minister Ilham Aliev.
In his Thursday address to the Azeri people published by the Ekho newspaper Aliev calls his son his political successor and presents him as a highly intellectual, energetic and pragmatic personality and an excellent politician and economist. “I believe that with your help Ilham Aliev will manage to carry through what I have failed to complete. I trust him like my own self.”
Then Aliev speaks about the last years’ achievements among them social stability, growing economy and quickly developing democracy.
In conclusion he promises to quickly recover and return home to be with his people again. Haydar Aliev has been in power for almost 30 years.
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