The voters in Karabakh voted in the parliamentary election in Azerbaijan with great enthusiasm, the member of the British House of Lords, Qurban Hussain, who observed the voting process in the snap elections to Azerbaijani Parliament said, Secki 2024 Independent Media Center reports.
“I am very pleased that the Azerbaijani ambassador to the UK invited me to come and observe the election in your country. I have been to the nation’s Shusha and Fuzuli and have seen how the voting takes place. Your system is not very different from what we see in the UK. So, the people in Karabakh were very excited to have the opportunity to vote. There was a lot of enthusiasm. They came steadily to the polling stations,” he said during a media briefing.
The voting that kicked off at 08:00 concluded at 19:00.
On June 28, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a decree dissolving the sixth convocation of the Azerbaijani Parliament and scheduling the extraordinary election for September 1.
Azerbaijan has 6,421,960 registered voters, including 374 who turned 18 on the election day. There are 6,478 polling stations, comprising 6,343 permanent and 135 temporary locations.
In the territories liberated from occupation, 54 permanent polling stations were set up. There are 10 electoral districts for internally displaced persons (IDPs), with 574 IDP polling stations serving 397,862 voters. More than 42,000 voters were able to cast their ballots in the liberated areas.
Exit polls are conducted at approximately 2,500 polling stations. Three international organizations are registered to carry out these polls: the Citizens’ Labor Rights Protection League, together with Oracle Advisory Group (US), and the «Tereggi» Public Association for Social Research, in collaboration with the Italian SWG S.p.A. research company.
A total of 112,749 local observers have been registered, including over 65,000 representatives of political parties. There are 598 international observers from 51 organizations and 69 countries, including 227 from OSCE/ODIHR and 61 from OSCE PA.
Among the 990 registered candidates, 305 represent 25 political parties, while 371 are party members but were not nominated by their parties. In total, 676 candidates are affiliated with political parties.
Webcams have been installed at 1,000 polling stations nationwide to allow direct and continuous observation of the voting process without requiring registration.
Portable ballot boxes were used across all polling stations for the parliamentary election on September 1.
