BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 8. ASAN (Azerbaijan Service and Assessment Network) centers will enable Azerbaijani citizens to check the presence of their names in voter lists through ASAN queue terminals, Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Rovzat Gasimov told reporters, Trend reports.
“The voters can check the presence of their names in the voter list and on the CEC website, as well as by visiting district and precinct election commissions or by contacting the CEC hotline. However, the ASAN service centers, whose services are used by 40,000 people a day, create greater opportunities," he said.
A total of 17 candidates have been registered to run in the extraordinary presidential election in Azerbaijan, said Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan Mazahir Panahov.
The CEC has already received the necessary papers from 7 of them. Panahov noted that the candidacies of three of them have already been approved.
"The documents of four people will be considered at the CEC meetings in the coming days. These documents should be checked according to the sequence that should be observed," Panahov added.
On December 7, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on holding an extraordinary presidential election in the country on February 7, 2024.