Mass resignations are not expected to take place in the left-wing Azerbaijan Social Democrat Party (ASDP). “Only member of the Central Committee supported participation in the presidential elections during the discussions held on the participation in the elections,” Araz Alizade, the co-chairman of the ASDP, told Trend News on 19 August.
The ASDP made a decision not to participate in the presidential elections with own candidate at the Central Plenum held on 18 August. The decision is connected with the presence of financial problem, the party said.
Elshan Manafov, the member of the ASDP Central Committee, resigned from the party, protesting this decision on 19 August. Manafov explained reason of his resignation with the party’s decision not to join the elections and arousing of authoritarianism at the party. He said that he would establish the left-wing Democrat Party in future.