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Referendum declared valid in Azerbaijan

Politics Materials 26 September 2016 14:45 (UTC +04:00)
The referendum on making amendments to Azerbaijan’s constitution has been declared valid.
Referendum declared valid in Azerbaijan

Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept.26

By Elchin Mehdiyev – Trend:

The referendum on making amendments to Azerbaijan’s constitution has been declared valid.

According to Azerbaijan’s Election Code, if the voter turnout in the referendum on the issues specified in the second paragraph of Article 3 of the constitution and Article 153 is less than 25 percent, the referendum is declared invalid.

As of 12:00 (GMT+4), 30.6 percent of the voters have cast ballot in the constitutional referendum in Azerbaijan and this shows that the referendum is valid.

The referendum to make amendments to Azerbaijan’s Constitution kicked off at 08:00 and will wrap up at 19:00 (UTC/GMT +4).

The number of voters in Azerbaijan stands at 5,267,111 people.

As many as 117 international observers – MPs from around 35 countries as well as observers from various international organizations, including the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) – have been accredited by Azerbaijan’s Central Election Commission (CEC) to observe the referendum.

The total number of the observers is around 53,000.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed an order to hold a referendum on amending the Constitution on Sept. 26.

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