As of 10:00 (UTC/GMT +4 hours), voter turnout in the parliamentary elections hit 12.8 percent in Azerbaijan, CEC Information Centre Director Rufat Gulmammadov announced, Trend reports.

“Around 667,732 people have already voted,” he said. Roughly 5.2 million Azerbaijani citizens, who enjoy the right to vote, will come to polling stations to express their constitutional right to elect their representatives to the parliament.

The vote is held from 8 a.m. local time and will last until 7 p.m.

This year, 767 candidates - the representatives of 15 political parties and one bloc of parties, which represents seven parties, will compete for seats in Azerbaijan's Parliament. More than 66,000 observers have passed accreditation at the election committee to monitor the elections