Azerbaijan, Baku, 19 August / Trend corr. E.Babayev / The number of citizens, who possess the right of voting in the upcoming presidential elections, is expected to significantly increase in Azerbaijan.
"Every day 30-40 citizens apply to hotline, opened to specify voting lists, and it is expected that insignificant changes will take place in the voting lists," Ramil Huseyov, the head of the Elections Information Centre at the Central Election Commission (CEC), told Trend on 19 August.
According to the data by the Azerbaijani CEC for May, 4,834,584 voters were registered. More than 4,6mln were registered in the voting lists in 2007.
A total of 52% of voters are women and 48% are men.
Huseynov said that final information on voting lists would be publicized 25 days before the election day. "People participate more actively in specifying voting lists as compared to 2007. Naturally, formation of hot line and enlightenment work created conditions for people to display interest in specifying voting list," he said.
The presidential elections will be held in Azerbaijan on 15 October.
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