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The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan Mazahir Panahov

Meeting of Azerbaijani Central Election Commission underway

BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 16. The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan is holding a meeting, TurkicWorld reports.

The meeting chaired by CEC head Mazahir Panahov will consider appeals received by the department in connection with the snap parliamentary election held on September 1.

Then the commission members will consider the issue of drawing up a protocol by the Central Election Commission on the general election results in connection with the election to the Parliament of the 7th convocation and transferring the election results to the Constitutional Court for verification and approval.

To recall, a total of 112,749 local observers were registered to observe the election. More than 65,000 of them were representatives of political parties. The number of registered international observers was 598, representing 51 organizations and 69 countries.

Out of 990 registered candidates in the parliamentary election, 305 are representatives of 25 political parties. Even though 371 candidates were affiliated with political parties, their respective parties did not nominate them. A total of 676 candidates were affiliated with a political party.

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