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Constitutional referendum voting begins in Azerbaijan

26 September 2016 [09:12] - TODAY.AZ
By  Trend

The voting in referendum on making amendments to Azerbaijan’s constitution kicked off at 08:00 (UTC/GMT + 4 hours) on Sept.ember 26.

The voting will wrap up at 19:00 (UTC/GMT + 4 hours).

As many as 117 international observers have been accredited in Azerbaijan’s Central Election Commission (CEC) to observe the referendum. They are members, MPs from around 35 countries, as well as various international organizations, including the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The total number of the observers is around 53,000.

Security cameras have been installed at 1,000 polling stations (around 20 percent) in 119 constituencies across the country in order to fully observe the processes in polling stations on the day of voting.

The number of polling stations in the referendum will exceed 5,600 and there will be around 10 observers in each polling station.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree July 18 on submitting the draft Referendum Act “On making amendments to Azerbaijan’s constitution” to the Constitutional Court.

The draft Referendum Act envisages establishing first vice-president and vice-president positions in Azerbaijan, extending the president’s term of office from five years to seven years, given the authority to the president to dissolve the parliament (Milli Majlis) and declare early presidential election, removing the age limit for presidential election, decreasing the age limit from 25 to 18 for participation in the parliamentary election.

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