Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has dissolved the Government in connection with his re-elections to the post of head of state.
Presidential Elections were held in Azerbaijan on 15 October. Ilham Aliyev, a candidate of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, took the victory gaining the overwhelming majority of votes.

The chairman of opposition Azerbaijan Democratic Party said that a suggestion was made to create a wide union of opposition before the presidential election, but Isa Gambar, head of Musavat Party, did not agree.
“I told the chairman of Musavat at the meeting that it will be difficult to create union of opposition after the presidential elections. We have already entered this stage. Illness of ambitions and initiatives appeared again,” Sardar Jalaloglu, chairman of opposition Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) told Trend News.

Reelected Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has today been inaugurated in Heydar Aliyev Palace.
APA reports that the inauguration ceremony began with the guard of honour. Following this, state flag of Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani President’s color were brought to the hall. Judges of the Constitutional Court were invited.
Chairman of the Constitutional Court Farhad Abdullayev announced the decision on Ilham Aliyev’s reelection as Azerbaijani President in the elections held on October 15 this year.

On October 23 Azerbaijan’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has issued a statement in response to the statement spread by the French Embassy in Azerbaijan on behalf of the EU Presidency in regard to the October 15 presidential elections.
CEC Press Service told APA that the CEC officials regretted such position of the EU Presidency, and stressed that 1250 international observers representing approximately 50.000 local and more than 100 influential international organizations had followed the presidential election in Azerbaijan.

There is a need to create a single focal point, uniting the opposition camp in Azerbaijan, said Eldar Namazov, the head of the public forum For Azerbaijan, which is part of the Opposition Cooperation Centre. “The new structure should attract famous people functioning in political parties, social organizations and non-governmental sector,” Namazov said to Trend News on 23 October.

The key mistake of the Azerbaijani opposition is that they establish their policy based of the foreign support.
“The key mistake of the opposition is that they take a great interest in the foreign factors and established their policy based on this factos,” member of opposition Musavat Party, editor-in-chief of Yeni Musavat newspaper, Rauf Arifoglu, told TrendNews on 23 October.
He said that already the foreign factor is against the Azerbaijani opposition and this should be confessed.
Arifoglu said that all international forces, institutions in the democratic countries, the countries representing democracy displayed an open interest to work with Ilham Aliyev.

The Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) urged opposition parties to accept the outcome of the presidential election.
“In our experience, radicalism of the opposition is not conducive to democratization in Azerbaijan, on the contrary, it harms,” chairman of DPA Sardar Jalaloglu said to Trend News on 23 October.
The opposition cooperation centre, boycotting the election, is composed of block Azadlig (Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, Liberal Party, Citizen and Development Party), Musavat party and the public forum For Azerbaijan.

Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan says he does not agree with several items of the report of OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on results of presidential election in Azerbaijan.
“The countries in the region should be approached with equal standards while assessing election,” Mazahir Panahov, CEC chairman said during his meeting with Boris Frlec, head of the OSCE mission, who monitored the 15 October presidential election.
“There was a great progress in the election, but it did not meet all democratic principles,” Frlec said previously.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan issued a statement on the declaration of the European Union about the October 15 presidential elections, saying that the declaration by the French Presidency on behalf of the European Union is confusing and disappointing.

Rector of Baku State University, member of Political Board of New Azerbaijan Party (YAP), MP Abel Maharramov called on opposition parties of Azerbaijan to support Ilham Aliyev. Abel Maharramov told APA that he had done this before the presidential elections and some oppositionists supported the authorities during the elections.

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will discuss the presidential elections in Azerbaijan at its session in January, 2009, Chief Delegate of Azerbaijan to PACE Samad Seyidov told APA.
The discussions will be held over the document prepared by PACE representatives, who observed the elections in Azerbaijan. “International organizations expressed positive opinions about the elections.

Vladimir Churov, the Chairman of the Central Elections Commission (CEC) of the Russian Federation, offers to study the technical innovation, which was used in the presidential elections in Azerbaijan on 15 October, carefully, RBK reported.
Churov attended the presidential elections in Azerbaijan and noted that web cameras were installed in election stations and the process was broadcasted on internet via on-line regime.