(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 2. The Civil
Solidarity Party has issued a statement regarding the snap
parliamentary election in Azerbaijan, Trend reports.
"The Civil Solidarity Party has participated in all elections in
the history of Azerbaijani parliamentarism and has achieved success
in all of them. The party, having increased its experience from
election to election, also distinguished itself by its activity in
the election to the VII convocation of the Parliament of
Azerbaijan.
A total of 17 candidates from the Civil Solidarity Party
participated in the parliamentary election, and our party conducted
its campaign comfortably and freely in a democratic electoral
environment and favorable conditions created for the campaign.
The candidates carried out their campaign activities without
obstacles, not only in the closed and open spaces designated by the
Central Election Commission (CEC) but also in every settlement,
village, town, and neighborhood, resulting in significant
success.
During this time, the party leadership and candidates met with
members of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human
Rights (ODIHR) long-term observation mission for the parliamentary
election in Azerbaijan, members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
observation mission, and representatives of many embassies
operating in our country. They discussed the electoral environment
and informed them about the candidates' campaign efforts.
The feedback from our observers, who monitored the election
process on September 1 in 51 out of 125 electoral districts, as
well as from the surveillance cameras installed in hundreds of
polling stations and monitored from the party headquarters,
provides grounds to state that the election to the VII convocation
of the Parliament of Azerbaijan was conducted safely,
democratically, and transparently.
According to preliminary results, three out of 17 candidates
from our party won and successfully completed the electoral
marathon.
All necessary conditions were created in the parliamentary
election on September 1 for the population to vote comfortably for
their desired candidate, and there was no influence on their
choice.
The Civil Solidarity Party sincerely congratulates all
candidates who achieved success in the preliminary election results
and wishes them success in their activities," the party's statement
added.
The snap parliamentary election was held in Azerbaijan on
September 1.
According to preliminary data , the voter turnout in the election
reached 37.27 percent.
A total of 2,196,771 voters had cast their ballots in the
election, and 5,895 polling stations submitted their protocols to
the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan.
A total of 112,749 local observers have been registered,
including over 65,000 representatives of political parties. There
were 598 international observers from 51 organizations and 69
countries.
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.
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