Politics - 1994 May 27 (Friday)

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva and their daughter Leyla Aliyeva have voted at the 1st polling station of the 7th Sabail electoral district located at secondary school No.6 in Baku, the website of the head of state reported.

Lawyer Fariz Namazly was detained on August 31 at about 21.00 by officers of the State Security Service. He was released three hours later around midnight. According to Namazly, he was questioned as a witness in a criminal case, but he did not specify which one.

Michael Creed, special coordinator and head of the OSCE short-term observation mission, spoke to journalists at one of the polling stations in the center on the morning of September 1, but refrained from any assessment of the early Parliamentary elections.

By 10:00 a.m., voter turnout in the snap parliamentary elections was 9.92%, the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan reported.