Over 1,000 candidates nominated for early Parliamentary elections
At the early elections to the Milli Majlis on September 1, 1,048 people applied for the nomination of candidates for deputies.
The nomination of 700 of them has already been approved by the district election commissions, the CEC head, Mazakhir Panakhov told reporters today.
According to him, webcams have been installed at 1,000 polling stations, through which the entire election process can be monitored online on the day of voting. In total, the voting will be held at approximately 6,400 polling stations in 125 electoral districts.
Politics
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Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov left for a working visit to Serbia on Monday.
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev sent a congratulatory message to the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, on the occasion of Holy Christmas.
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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