Azerbaijan - Government and Politics

The Appearance of Opposition Parties
The Azerbaijani Popular Front
Party Configuration after 1991
Legislative Politics
The Presidential Election of 1992
The Coup of June 1993
Aliyev and the Presidential Election of October 1993
The Constitution
The Court System
Human Rights and the Media

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Government and politics

In the late 1980s, the advent of Mikhail S. Gorbachev's policy of glasnost in Moscow encouraged vocal opposition to the ruling Azerbaijani Communist Party (ACP). In 1989 the central opposition role went to the Azerbaijani Popular Front (APF), which was able to capture the presidency in the 1992 election. But failure to resolve the disastrous conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh continued to destabilize Azerbaijani regimes throughout the early 1990s. Growing masses of disaffected refugees pressed vociferously for military victory and quickly shifted their support from one leader to another when losses occurred, negating efforts to establish solid political institutions at home or to make concessions that might provide a diplomatic solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. In 1993 the APF leadership was overthrown, and former communist official Heydar Aliyev was installed as president.

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