In advance of Georgia’s October presidential election, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Thomas O. Melia and USAID Assistant Administrator Paige Alexander will co-lead a delegation of U.S. Government officials to Georgia the week of September 9.
To demonstrate the importance the U.S. Government attaches to democratic electoral processes, other members of the delegation will include officials from the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Department of Justice.
The delegation will meet with senior government officials, political party representatives, election officials, members of parliament, civil society leaders, and media freedom advocates, reads US State Department press release.
According to diplomat sources, after Georgia Thomas Melia will come to Baku. -25D-
Politics
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By 10:00 a.m., voter turnout in the snap parliamentary elections was 9.92%, the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan reported.
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Near the polling station in the village of Astanly of the 70th Neftchala electoral district, unknown assailants attacked the car of an observer from the candidate for deputy Vafa Naghi, who is running for the early Parliamentary elections. Naghi reports on a social network about a car window broken with a stone.
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Shafag Mailova, candidate for deputy in the 42nd Sumgayit first district claimed about violations at various polling stations.
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“Carousels” at the elections are getting mass character, "Musavat" Party has stated. According to the Party's press release, at the 24th polling station of the 17th Yasamal third electoral district of Baku, even people registered in the country's regions are voting.
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