(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 1. Today is a real
holiday in Azerbaijan, and I have already managed to communicate
with representatives of parties, the legal community, students, and
military men, and all of them waited for this day as a day of
sincere expression of people's will, realizing the responsibility
that falls on every citizen of the Republic of Azerbaijan for the
election to the Azerbaijani Parliament, the Deputy Chairperson of
the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Sergei
Khomenko said, Trend reports.
“In the context of this level of responsibility, everyone said
that true patriots of Azerbaijan should be represented in the
parliament. It is quite symbolic that we are now on the territory
that is now recovering from military actions. We can see the
progress that is being made on the Karabakh land. We are now in the
building of a beautiful school, and the school is the place where
the future of the republic is formed. Being in such a building, the
citizens will always remember that the state cares about them, and
the deputies of the parliament are the true conductors of the will
of the people. We are witnessing a promising level of
organization.
All polling stations we visited are equipped under the Electoral
Code of Azerbaijan, and public order is ensured. All the way from
Baku to Fuzuli, we observed the festive mood of people-the kind of
order that should be present on election day in any state,"
Khomenko emphasized.
On June 28, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev
signed a decree dissolving the sixth convocation of the Azerbaijani
Parliament and scheduling the extraordinary election for September
1.
Azerbaijan has 6,421,960 registered voters, including 374 who
turned 18 on the election day. There are 6,478 polling stations,
comprising 6,343 permanent and 135 temporary locations.
In the territories liberated from occupation, 54 permanent
polling stations are set up. There are 10 electoral districts for
internally displaced persons (IDPs), with 574 IDP polling stations
serving 397,862 voters. More than 42,000 voters will cast their
ballots in the liberated areas.
A total of 51,141 voters will participate for the first time in
the extraordinary parliamentary election. The oldest female voter
is 134 years old, and the oldest voter is 109 years old.
Exit polls will be conducted at approximately 2,500 polling
stations. Three international organizations are registered to carry
out these polls: the Citizens' Labor Rights Protection League,
together with Oracle Advisory Group (US), and the "Tereggi" Public
Association for Social Research, in collaboration with the Italian
SWG S.p.A. research company.
A total of 112,749 local observers have been registered,
including over 65,000 representatives of political parties. There
are 598 international observers from 51 organizations and 69
countries, including 227 from OSCE/ODIHR and 61 from OSCE PA.
Among the 990 registered candidates, 305 represent 25 political
parties, while 371 are party members but were not nominated by
their parties. In total, 676 candidates are affiliated with
political parties.
Webcams have been installed at 1,000 polling stations nationwide
to allow direct and continuous observation of the voting process
without requiring registration.
Portable ballot boxes will be used across all polling stations
for the parliamentary election on September 1.
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