BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 1. The voting process continues in Absheron district in connection with the extraordinary election to the Azerbaijani Parliament of the seventh convocation, and 167,856 citizens who have the right to vote are registered in the voter's list of the district, Trend reports.
According to information, voters vote at 129 polling stations, which are provided with necessary conditions.
The process of voting in the electoral districts operating in the district - Absheron first electoral district No. 48, Absheron second electoral district No. 49, Absheron third electoral district No. 50, and Sumgayit-Absheron-Garadagh district No. 47 - is monitored by numerous observers.
At polling station No. 9 of Absheron second constituency No. 49, voter Gulshan Khudatova noted that the parliamentary election was held for the first time in the whole territory of Azerbaijan, and she is proud of it. She voted for her candidate.
“I believe that the deputies elected by us to the parliament will justify the trust of voters. At the polling station there are all conditions for free expression of their will,” she added.
To note, 13 candidates are competing for four mandates in the Azerbaijani parliamentary election in the Absheron district.
On June 28, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a decree dissolving the sixth convocation of the Azerbaijani Parliament and scheduling the extraordinary election for September 1.
Azerbaijan has 6,421,960 registered voters, including 374 who turned 18 on the election day. There are 6,478 polling stations, comprising 6,343 permanent and 135 temporary locations.
In the territories liberated from occupation, 54 permanent polling stations are set up. There are 10 electoral districts for internally displaced persons (IDPs), with 574 IDP polling stations serving 397,862 voters. More than 42,000 voters will cast their ballots in the liberated areas.
A total of 51,141 voters will participate for the first time in the extraordinary parliamentary election. The oldest female voter is 134 years old, and the oldest voter is 109 years old.
Exit polls will be conducted at approximately 2,500 polling stations. Three international organizations are registered to carry out these polls: the Citizens' Labor Rights Protection League, together with Oracle Advisory Group (US), and the "Tereggi" Public Association for Social Research, in collaboration with the Italian SWG S.p.A. research company.
A total of 112,749 local observers have been registered, including over 65,000 representatives of political parties. There are 598 international observers from 51 organizations and 69 countries, including 227 from OSCE/ODIHR and 61 from OSCE PA.
Among the 990 registered candidates, 305 represent 25 political parties, while 371 are party members but were not nominated by their parties. In total, 676 candidates are affiliated with political parties.
Webcams have been installed at 1,000 polling stations nationwide to allow direct and continuous observation of the voting process without requiring registration.
Portable ballot boxes will be used across all polling stations for the parliamentary election on September 1.
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