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32,427 people registered to observe Azerbaijan municipal elections

11 December 2014 15:20 (UTC +04:00)

32,427 out of them applied to district election commissions as they wanted to observe within a concrete constituency. 18,675 people were registered by political parties to observe municipal elections. 6 NGOs also want to observe the elections.

784 will observe with the observing candidate’s appointment, while 12,818 on their own initiative.

202 observers passed accreditation at the CEC. 86 of them will observe on their own initiative. 109 observers are representatives of political parties. One person at the CEC holds a special permission as an observer. 6 observers of the International Institute of Monitoring of Development of Democracy, Parliamentarism and Protection of Electoral Rights under the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly passed accreditation.

The registration process for observers continues.

M. Panahov said the printing of the bulletins were about to finish, adding that the ballot papers will be distributed to election commissions on December 14 and this process will come to a close on December 17.

According to him, media representatives too can take part in the process.