Results of November 6 elections in Azerbaijan officially valid starting today

The plenary session presided by chair of the CC Farhad Abdullayev brought together 7 judges of the court, Central Election Commission chairman and members, experts, specialists, representatives of foreign embassies and mass media representatives .CEC secretary Vidai Mahmudlu missed the plenum due to his illness. The judges made speech after F.Abdullayev informed about the agenda of the session.

Judge Aladdin Sultanov stated that, the President issued a decree on improving election practices on May 11 and on October 25, 2005 the decree to prevent illegalities and frauds in the elections. In accordance with the Electoral Code, the CEC was to investigate the appeals and make decision on them submiting results to the Constitutional Court within 20 days after the elections. The CEC submitted the final protocol to the CC on 23 November.

Judge Rafael Gvaladze informed about complaints on election frauds sent to the CEC, courts and prosecutor’s office. According to him, the Court of Appeals reviewed 71 complaint on election frauds and made relevant decisions. The CEC received 57 complaints and none of them were satisfied as they were groundless. The resolutions of the Court of Appeals on 38 civil complaints entered the Supreme Court and remained in force. The Prosecutor General’s Office received from the CEC and constituencies 72 appeals having criminal content in them and 11 crime cases were raised on the basis of those appeals. The crime cases concern some candidates in Sabunchu ConEC #28, Sumgayit ConEC #41, Goychay ConEC and constituencies #102, #108 and #117 under article 159.4.1 and on one candidate of Shamkir ConEC #99 for intervening in the work of the constituency .

Crime case was raised against chairmen and members of Sumgayit ConEC #42 , Binagadi ConEC #9, Surakhani ConEC 1 #31 and 4 members of the constituency #69 for abusing official powers.

The chairman and members of the CEC addressed to the session. Mazahir Panahov stated that names of 4,660,000 voters were placed on the website of the CEC. 2237 candidates took signature sheets from the CEC. Only 28 of them were not registered as candidates. Some of them withdrew their candidacies later on and the ballot papers included the names of 1530 candidates. All the necessary conditions were provided for all candidates in the mass media during the election campaign. Paying and free campaigning opportunity was provided for the candidates of 8 blocs and about 50 parties. About 60 thousand local and more than 1600 foreign observers observed the elections. The CEC received 538 appeals and all of them were investigated. The voting was considered unreliable in 4 constituencies. The leaders changed in Binagadi ConEC#8 and Surakhani ConEC 1 #31 as the result of abolishing the results in some of the polling stations.

13 CEC members signed the protocol sent to the CC and 2 members refused to sign. These members were Anvar Aliyev and Mansum Bayramov. Mansum Bayramov who did not sign the protocol explained the reason of his refusal saying hi did not sign the document since he witnessed serious frauds. Bayramov asked the CC to abolish the results of the Elections.

Aliyev noted that there were improvements in the latest elections in comparison with the previous ones. He also mentioned about the illegalities. Natig Mammadov, Svetlana Gasimova, BSU experts Mubariz Ismayilov, Shiraslan Yusifov, chief counselors of the State Statistics Committee Ulduze Hamidova, Gulnar Ahmadova and Elman Gasimov delivered a speech at the plenum.

The Constitutional Court confirmed results of the November 6 parliamentary elections excluding only six constituencies. CC has eliminated election results in the following Election Constituencies: #31 Surakhani II (CEC announced Ali Karimli winner in this constituency), #44 Sumgayit –Apsheron (Tofig Huseynli), #69 Jalilabad-Masalli-Bilasuvar (Gulamhuseyn Alibayli), #103 Gadabey (Fakhraddin Gambarov), #106Tovuz-Gazakh-Agstafa (Ilgar Gilijov), #119 Aghdam village (Bakhtiyar Sadigov).

It should be noted that the Constitutional Court is the last instance and no complaints can be made on its decision. The law is in force from the day of its adoption and no changes can be applied to it.

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