Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00.
Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation.
990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
305 of them were nominated by 25 political parties.
The opposition Popular Front Party is boycotting the elections.
Official data on voter turnout will be provided 5 times during the day, at 10:00, 12:00, 15:00, 17:00 and 19:00.
Voting will end at 19:00. Preliminary results will be known late in the evening of September 1 – at night on September 2.
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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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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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Ruslan
2024-09-01
О каких выборах идет речь ?? у нас выборов нет у нас назначают или продают места в милли меджлис это просто шоу граждан держат за лохов это факт что не уважают граждан нарушают права граждан депупаты это адвокаты граждан но у нас все наооборот депутаты превратились бизнесменов они только о себе и думают и все им не нужны граждане страны и властям тем более...