The Baku Court of Appeal upheld the CEC decision to refuse registration of Ahmed Oruj, the head of "Svoboda" party, as a presidential candidate.
This decision was made based on the results of the re-examination of signatures of voters in favor of Orudj, which the CEC recognized invalid.
The Baku Court of Appeal re-examined the complaint of Orudj, after the Supreme Court remanded the case to the appellate court.
Hafiz Hasanov, the Head of the Law and Development Center, protecting the rights of Oruj called the decision of the Court of Appeal unfounded.
"Re-examination was conducted only yesterday. It is impossible to re-examine 7.5 million signatures in less than a day. Moreover, the examination was conducted not by an independent body, but by the Expertise Center of the Justice Ministry. The methodology on the basis of which these experts recognized signatures as invalid is not clear, " said Hasanov.
CEC called 7,578 of the 43,413 signatures submitted to the Central Election Commission, invalid.—06B--
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