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Azerbaijan’s constitutional referendum wraps up

Politics Materials 26 September 2016 19:01 (UTC +04:00)
The referendum for amendments to Azerbaijan’s Constitution has wrapped up.
Azerbaijan’s constitutional referendum wraps up

Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 26

By Elchin Mehdiyev – Trend:

The referendum for amendments to Azerbaijan’s Constitution has wrapped up.

The referendum kicked off at 08:00 and wrapped up at 19:00 (UTC/GMT+4). According to data, 63.6 percent of voters or 3,348,535 people cast their ballots. The referendum was declared valid.

As many as 117 international observers – MPs from over 30 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 CEC to observe the referendum. The total number of the observers is around 53,000.

Security cameras have been installed at 1,000 polling stations (around 20 percent) in 119 constituencies across the country in order to fully observe the processes in polling stations on the day of voting.

The number of polling stations in the referendum was 5,600 and there were about 10 observers in each polling station.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree July 18 on submitting the draft Referendum Act “On making amendments to Azerbaijan’s constitution” to the Constitutional Court.

The draft Referendum Act envisages establishing first vice-president and vice-president positions in Azerbaijan, extending the president’s term of office from five years to seven years, giving the authority to the president to dissolve the parliament (Milli Majlis) and declare early presidential election, removing the age limit for presidential election, decreasing the age limit from 25 to 18 for participation in the parliamentary election.

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