# Aliyev appoints Mehriban Aliyeva first vice-president

Date: 2017

## The fact

On 21 February 2017 [Ilham Aliyev](/people/ilham-aliyev) appointed Mehriban Aliyeva first vice-president by decree. She is named as an unresolved person candidate. This run does not mint a page for her.

## Context

The 2016 constitution created the post. He filled it with his wife. A family appointment is not a unique embezzlement conviction.

2016 referendum; 2017 appointment. Two Facts.

The president of Azerbaijan is head of state and commander-in-chief. He can decree, appoint a vice-president, and order force. He does not sit as a Baku trial judge, does not write ICJ orders, and does not write European Commission memoranda.

## Evidence and sources

president.az carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [civic space](/drivers/civic-space) and succession architecture from a completed dynastic appointment.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Mehriban Aliyeva was appointed first vice-president on 21 February 2017.

Not established: A unique 2017 embezzlement coefficient from the appointment decree.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The 2016 text created the post. This page does not mint her.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Aliyev appoints Mehriban Aliyeva first vice-president, not a later speech about Aliyev appoints Mehriban Aliyeva first vice-president.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Aliyev appoints Mehriban Aliyeva first vice-president on 2017-02-21 is not a licence to treat every later president.az communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Aliyev appoints Mehriban Aliyeva first vice-president into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He appointed her. The 2016 text created the post. This page does not mint her. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Ilham Aliyev: https://factrail.ai/people/ilham-aliyev

## Drivers

- Civic Space: https://factrail.ai/drivers/civic-space

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-azerbaijan-president-wife-idUSKBN1601Y20170221
- https://president.az/en/articles/view/22832

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/az-mehriban-vp-2017