BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 8. The voting process in the presidential election in Azerbaijan was organized transparently, the head of the International Committee of the Russian Federation Council Grigory Karasin said during the press conference in Baku, Trend reports.
"We saw a large number of voters in the presidential election in Azerbaijan who were waiting for their turn to vote and it is impressive. I was lucky that the first election I was honored to observe was the presidential election in Azerbaijan," he said.
He noted that the organization process for the election was almost perfect.
"The atmosphere, the huge modern voting halls, the voting booths, everything was almost perfect," he said.
The extraordinary presidential election in Azerbaijan took place on February 7.
Seven candidates run in the election.
According to the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev is leading in the presidential election in Azerbaijan with 92.05 percent of the votes after the processing of 93.35 percent of the ballots.
Zahid Oruj received 2.19 percent of the votes, Razi Nurullayev - 0.8 percent, Fazil Mustafa - two percent, Elshad Musayev - 0.67 percent, Gudrat Hasanguliyev - 1.76 percent, Fuad Aliyev - 0.53 percent of the votes.
According to the results of the US-based Oracle Advisory Group and the Citizens' Labor Rights Protection League, 93.9 percent of voters cast their ballots for Ilham Aliyev.
The Social Research Center said that 92.4 percent of voters voted for Ilham Aliyev.
Based on the results of the exit poll of the Ray Monitoring Center, 92.6 percent of voters voted for Ilham Aliyev.
For the first time in the history of independent Azerbaijan, the election covered the entire territory of the country, including 26 polling stations in the lands liberated from Armenian occupation.
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