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Azerbaijani parliament to discuss amendments and annexes to Electoral Code on June 18

09 June 2010 12:07 (UTC +04:00)

The amendments and annexes proposed by a group of lawmakers from the New Azerbaijan Party were recommended to the plenary session of the parliament by the legal policy and state-building committee, APA reports.

Two main amendments were proposed to the Electoral Code â€“ reduction of election period from 75 to 60 days and withdrawal of point about the allocation of the government resources to the candidates from the Code.

The amendment proposed to article 8.1 of the Code causes automatically other changes. Reducing of election period from 75 to 60 days makes it necessary to reduce campaign period from 28 to 23 days. â€œIf the electoral districts are established before the elections (referendum), the scheme of establishing of electoral districts and its graphic description should be approved 55 days before the election (referendum) day and published at least 50 days before the election (referendum) day. This period is shown in the existing version of the document respectively 70 and 65 days. If the district election commissions are established before the elections, they should be organized at least 50 days (60 days in the existing version) before the voting day. Information about the voters in the military bases, isolators and penitentiaries should be introduced at least 20 days (25 days in existing version) before by the election commissions. The relevant election commission should pass decision about the registration of the candidates 7 days (10 days in existing version) after receiving of signatures and other documents required for the registration. The competent representatives of the candidates should submit the necessary documents to the election commissions at least 30 days and maximum 50 days (40 and 65 days respectively) before the election (referendum) day until 18.00. The competent representatives of the candidates should submit the documents for registration of referendum campaign group at least 35 days (45 days in existing version) before the voting day until 18.00.

The campaign groups are proposed to be registered within 7 days, but not 10 days. Lists of the candidates drawn according to the electoral districts are published in the relevant periodical editions at least 20 days (25 days in existing version) before the voting day.