Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-06-09-Speech-4-180"

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lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Commissioner, the internal situation in Azerbaijan is highly explosive and deserves our attention. The main reason is the growing dissatisfaction, not to mention downright disillusion, with President Aliyev’s authoritarian regime. Worryingly, this popular discontent is finding an increasingly Islamic expression. Suffice to say that at the moment, 20% of Azerbaijanis favour the introduction of the Islamic law, and Azerbaijan does not have a Western outlook either. This significant internal dissatisfaction can be attributed to several causes. For example, the true unemployment rate, despite the oil and construction boom, is very high, being estimated at 20% to 30%. Furthermore, the current presidential government owes its dire popularity ratings to its practice of silencing the opposition in the electronic media, obstructing, where possible, the opposition’s public manifestations, and to a hardly representative voting system characterised by ballot-rigging. The latter is, in fact, a national tradition, which is taking on ever more refined forms these days. Can the European Union, as one of Baku’s official partners, do anything at all to help Azerbaijan develop peacefully and democratically? What is called for in any event is clear language from Brussels about how reprehensible its government’s repressive practices are, as is close, European observation of the ballots in the parliamentary elections planned for November. I hope that the Council and Commission will be firm in calling President Aliyev and his political entourage to account about the enormous political risks of repressive policy not merely in a national, but also in a much larger, regional, context."@en1
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