OSCE PA observation mission: Voting process meets all rules in Azerbaijan

The parliamentary elections are held in accordance with all the rules until now, Polish representative, member of OSCE PA observation mission Dariusz Kajetan Rosati told reporters.

"The polling stations are well equipped,” Kajetan Rosati added, Trend reports on Feb. 9.

“The chairmen of precinct election commissions and other representatives are on the sites,” the member of the observation mission added. “We have not registered any offenses and incidents. We visited three polling stations, everything is well."

The parliamentary elections of the sixth convocation are being held in Azerbaijan on Feb. 9.

The CEC Secretariat Information Center will inform about the voting process, as well as preliminary data as of 12:00, 15:00, 17:00 and 19:00 (GMT+4).

Some 1,314 candidates were registered within the early parliamentary elections.

The candidacies of 246 people were nominated by 19 political parties, 1,057 were self-nominated, 11 - by initiative groups.

Twenty-one percent account for female candidates while 79 percent – male candidates.

Throughout the day, 5,573 permanent polling stations will operate in 125 constituencies of the country.

Some 5,329,460 voters will take part in the voting, and 340,689 internally displaced people will vote in 573 polling stations.

Some 883 international observers and 77,790 local observers are observing the voting process. Among the local observers, 35,152 are representatives of political parties. International observers represent 58 countries and 59 organizations.

Exit polls will be conducted by AJF & Associates Inc. (US) jointly with Citizens’ Labor Rights Protection League, the Rey Monitoring Center, and the French OpinionWay Research Institute together with the “Human Rights in the XXI Century – Azerbaijan” Foundation