Establishment of a movement called the Third Republic in the Republic of Azerbaijan

, on December 7, a group of social and political figures established the platform of the Third Republic on the 105th anniversary of the establishment of the Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

The founding committee was chosen from among the founders of the platform. Akif Gurbanov, Araz Aliyev, Elman Fattah, Roshan Aghayev, Ruslan Ezatli, Samad Rahimili and Yadgar Sediqli are present in this team.

In the statement of this The organization stated that the board of founders elected Akif Gurbanov as the speaker of the parliament for a period of one year to represent the organization and organize the implementation of decisions, and the duties were divided among other members of the board of directors.

The statement published by the Third Platform of the Republicans states: The liberation of Azerbaijan’s lands and the restoration of territorial integrity have created new realities about the country’s future socio-political landscape. It is no secret that all the leading actors in the political scene of Azerbaijan today (the ruling political force and its main opponents) have come to the field with the issue of Karabakh.

The third reason for the change of power in Azerbaijan in 1990-1993 was precisely the failure in Karabakh. At that time, in the social-political atmosphere of the society, it was very important to maintain any political force that promised success in solving the Karabakh problem and could convince them of it.

The statement of this organization states: The current government of Azerbaijan acted more flexibly by drawing conclusions from the fate of the forces before it, and after the military failures it faced in the first term of office, it was able to reach a mutual ceasefire agreement and stabilize its power in the long term. But this factor did not solve the problem of the political and moral legitimacy of the unchanged power during the last 27 years until the start of the second Karabakh war. This is the reason why almost 20 elections held during the ruling years of the New Azerbaijan Party were falsified without exception and the society’s free choice was not trusted.

The main discussion induced in the public opinion was that the implementation of democratic political reforms, the formation of freedom of expression and Andishe will open a wider field for the separatist tendencies that created the problem of Karabakh and will weaken the country.

In short , the power and political agenda of the 27-year-old government was formed with the issue of Karabakh. “The country has as many problems as Karabakh!” This proverb is deliberately introduced for this reason.

A similar approach is applied to alternative political forces with different arguments. Therefore, the political agenda of the opposition was mainly shaped by the issue of Karabakh. Undoubtedly, the fact that public opinion considers the country’s territorial integrity as the number one problem could not affect the propaganda and program of alternative political forces.

However, The opposition could not create a public opinion that the very deep political, demographic, social, economic and environmental problems of Azerbaijan are as important as the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. In the last 3 decades, the main topic of political struggles and conflicts in the country was the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, and public understanding and discussion of all other fundamental problems was very dull.

Platform Third, the Republicans believe that: in such a reality, for the future of Azerbaijan, it is necessary for new political forces to emerge with a different agenda. The new agenda can be conditionally called the “post-Karabakh agenda”. which is a source of tyranny in the country, transition to a modern democratic political system, restoring trust in public administration and the electoral system, eliminating extraordinary conditions, eliminating acute imbalances in interregional development by providing decentralization and making the regions habitable, eliminating resources Income inequality is of political origin and strategic issues such as native corruption, reducing as much as possible the damage caused by climate change, especially in the field of agriculture, and paying attention to strategic issues such as the development of a quality standard of living.

After some time, the post-Karabakh era will be followed by the post-oil era, and this stage will create serious social and economic problems for Azerbaijan. In this regard, the issue of sustainable economic development should be one of the main elements of the “post-Karabakh agenda”. Above, as founders, we declare that we have created the Third Republican Platform.

This platform declares that the main center of gravity of its activities is participation Activist of Azerbaijani citizens with the aim of guaranteeing fundamental rights and freedoms. The organization also states that its mission is to ensure the transition from a managed society to a self-governing society.

end of message/