Residents of Azerbaijan on Sunday, September 1 will come to polling stations to determine the new composition of the Milli Majlis (Parliament) of the country of the seventh convocation.
On June 28, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev dismissed the country’s parliament and appointed extraordinary elections to the legislative body on September 1. For 125 deputy mandates, 990 candidates will fight the country’s parliament. More than 6 million 421 thousand citizens of the country will be able to use the right of vote.
Candidates from 25 political parties, including the Eni Azerbaijan party (New Azerbaijan), whose leader is President Aliyev, as well as independent candidates, will take part in the elections. The elections will track about 112 thousand local and 604 foreign observers.
delegations of observers from such international organizations as the Bureau of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Assembly of the OSCE, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Organization of the Turkic States, the Parliament of the Turkic States, will follow the progress of voting . In addition, representatives from the Great National Assembly (Parliament) of Turkey will observe the elections in Azerbaijan.
Voting will begin at 08.00 local time and end at 19.00.
Voting urns were also installed in areas liberated by Azerbaijan from Armenian occupation. Thus, for the first time in 30 years, parliamentary elections will be held throughout Azerbaijan.
In particular, more than 42 thousand voters will be able to vote in polling stations in Shusha, the city of Karabakh, in Khankendi, which was once used as the “capital” of the separatist Armenian administration, Khojaly, Khoja, Agder, Agdame, Dzhebrail , Fizuli, Zangilan, Gubadly, Lacina and Kelbajar.