The Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan (CEC) calls on the citizens, who have not an opportunity to vote in the permanent area of their registration, to appeal to the district and divisional election commission to be included in the election lists.
“Maybe the citizen does not live in the area of the election district where his name was included, but it does not mean that condition should not be created for the voting of those citizens,” the CEC Chairman, Mazahir Panahov, briefed the media on 11 September.
Panahov said that appealing to the district election stations by 20 September, the citizens can get registered in the election lists in the area where they live currently. And three days prior to the voting, appealing to the divisional election commissions, the citizens can get into registration in the election station of the territory where they live currently.
“For this, the citizens do not need to appeal to the district election commissions, where they are in permanent registration. It is satisfactory to appeal to the district election commissions of the territory where they live currently. The district election commissions will send information on the citizens to each other,” Panahov added.
Several opposition parties stated that their members have not been named in the election lists and it was mentioned that if the names of those electors are presented to the CEC, they will be included in the election lists.
Panahov said that the election posters should be hung in the dense places of citizens, railway and bus stations and other places available for people. “We should hang the posters in a way not damaging the historical buildings,” he said. /Trend/
CIS Observation Mission to cover all election districts in Azerbaijani presidential elections: CIS executive secretary
CIS observation mission will cover all election districts in the upcoming presidential elections in Azerbaijan.
“The observation will cover all 125 election districts. The CIS mission will include 250-300 long-term and short-term observers,” Sergey Lebedov, executive secretary of CIS said to TrendNews by telephone from Moscow on 11 September. The presidential elections in Azerbaijan will be held on 15 October.
Headquarters of CIS observation mission is expected to be opened in Baku on 16 September. Headquarters of the mission may set up branches in Ganja, Lankaran, Nakhchivan and Khachmaz, Lebedev said.
CIS mission will be sent to Azerbaijan at the invitation of Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry to observe presidential elections.
Council of permanent representatives of CIS member states at the regulatory and other bodies of the Organization has approved nomination of executive secretary as a head of observation mission.
According to Lebedev, observation mission of CIS will include observers from its member states. “We have already invited CIS states. The mission will include observers from regions of Russia, Inter-Parliament Assembly of CIS, Parliament Assembly of Union of Belarus and Russia and also representatives of CIS embassies in Azerbaijan.
The observers are expected to visit election districts, to monitor mass media reports on the activities of presidential candidates, study election legislation, to hold meetings with heads of the bodies responsible for examining complaints and statements related violations during voting, he said. On 16 October, head of CIS mission will make a final statement on the results of the elections.
So far, the CEC has confirmed nomination of the chairman of the New Azerbaijan Party Ilham Aliyev, the chairman of the Umid Party Igbal Agazade, the chairman of the Muasir Musavat Party Hafiz Hajiyev and the chairman of the Great Establishment Party Fazil Gazanfaroglu. /Trend/