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Azerbaijan
On January 16-28, 2009, the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center held Town Hall Meetings in Ganja, Beylagan, Sumqayit, Jalilabad and Mingechevir on the constitutional referendum to be held on March 18, 2009.
Azerbaijan CEC announced that 6 candidates for president passed the first stage of registration, submitting all necessary documents before 2 August . They are: from the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) the incumbent President Ilham Aliyev, chairman of oppositional Umid party Igbal Agazade, unemployed Yashar Ahmadov...
On May 21, 2007 the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan republic scheduled the next presidential elections on October 15, 2008. Official election campaign, according to the Election Code, should start at least 120 days prior to the Election Day. At the same time, chair of the CEC Mazahir Panahov expressed a hope that the Musavat Party will nominate its candidates to election commissions...
Nagorno-Karabakh conducted a referendum on a Constitution of this self-proclaimed republic. Election lists contained 90,000 voters out of 137,700 people, living in the republic. A total of 278 polling stations operated in the republican capital Stepanakert and in all Nagorno-Karabakh districts.
Azerbaijan faces new election. This time, it will be municipal re-election. In addition, on October 6, new election will be held in those councils where more than one third members have resigned; by-election in councils, where less than one third members have resigned; and elections in municipalities established after 2004.
Report # 2 of Election Monitoring Center on the results of Long-Term Observation of the repeat elections due to be held to Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan Republic on May 13, 2006.
Non-governmental organizations, election blocks and parliamentary candidates of Azerbaijan Republic appealed to international organizations for considering the results of their analyses of November 6, 2005 elections to the Milli Majlis...
Ilham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan, has signed a decree on conduction of re-elections to parliament on May 13, 2006. The decree came after the Constitution Court cancelled the election results in 10 constituencies out of 125 due to numerous falsifications...
Azerbaijan’s Constitutional Court on December 1 confirmed the official results of the country’s November 6 parliamentary elections, with one key opposition leader seeing his election victory thrown out. The ruling prompted leaders of the main opposition alliance to announce that they would press its claim of a rigged vote in an international court.
Police have used water cannons and tear gas to disperse thousands of peaceful demonstrators in Baku protesting results of parliamentary elections that gave a landslide win to President Ilham Aliyev's ruling party.
Some 15,000 opposition activists rallied in Baku to protest the outcome of the Nov. 6 parliamentary elections, which they claimed were rigged. The rally was the latest in a series of opposition protests.
When the demonstrators tried to set up a permanent protest...
Country
About country
Country: Azerbaijan
Capital: Baku
Population: 7,868,385
Head of state: president elected by popular vote
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal.
Legislation
The Constitution Of The Azerbaijan Republic
Law on Non-Governmental Organisations (2000).
Available in English.
The OSCE Office in Baku possesses a broad mandate, which covers major areas of concern in all OSCE dimensions including the human, political, economic and environmental aspects of security and stability.
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