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Isa Gambar

Isa Gambar
İsa Qəmbər
Gambar in 2016
President of Azerbaijan
Acting
In office
May 18, 1992 – June 17, 1992
Preceded byAyaz Mutallibov
Succeeded byAbulfaz Elchibey
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan
In office
May 18, 1992 – June 15, 1993
Preceded byYagub Mammadov
Succeeded byHeydar Aliyev
Personal details
Born
İsa Yunis oğlu Qəmbər

(1957-02-24) February 24, 1957 (age 67)
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union (now Azerbaijan)
Political partyMüsavat
SpouseAida Bağırova
Children2
Signature

Isa Yunis oghlu Gambar (Azerbaijani: İsa Yunis oğlu Qəmbər), also known as Isa Gambar (born February 24, 1957), is an Azerbaijani politician and leader of the Equality Party (Müsavat), one of the opposition blocs in Azerbaijan. He was elected a member of parliament in 1990 and was elected parliamentary speaker in 1992.

A prominent opposition figure in Azerbaijan, Gambar was blocked from contesting elections by Azerbaijani ruler Heydar Aliyev.[1] Aliyev stripped Gambar of parliamentary immunity and had him arrested when he criticized Aliyev's power grab in 1993.[1] Criticism from abroad led Aliyev's regime to release Gambar a few weeks later.[1]

Gambar was a close associate of independent Azerbaijan's first freely elected president Abulfaz Elchibey who was ousted in a military coup.[1]

During his time in parliament, Gambar worked with Elchibey to take the first steps to introducing market reforms in Azerbaijan.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e Altstadt, Audrey L. (1997), Parrott, Bruce; Dawisha, Karen (eds.), "Azerbaijan's struggle toward democracy", Conflict, Cleavage, and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus, Democratization and Authoritarianism in Post-Communist Societies, Cambridge University Press, pp. 110–155, ISBN 978-0-521-59731-9

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