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Azerbaijan greatly developed electoral system: French senator

10 October 2013 13:20 (UTC+04:00)
Azerbaijan greatly developed electoral system: French senator

A group of French observers representing all five parties of the country held monitoring in Guba in connection with the presidential election and confirms that no violations were observed during the voting process, head of the observation mission from the French Senate Nathalie Goulet said at a press conference at the Independent Press Center on October 10.

Goulet said ten years ago she was a member of the observation mission in the first election where Ilham Aliyev won, and therefore is very familiar with the country.

"I observed a very large development of the electoral system in Azerbaijan over the last ten years," Goulet said.

According to another member of the observation group from the French Senate Mohammad Salehi , elections were held at a high level and no problems were observed at polling stations.

"I do not see any difference in the electoral process in France and in Azerbaijan , except for one- in Azerbaijan elections are monitored by much more missions ," he said.

The Azerbaijani presidential election was held on October 9. According to the initial results, President Ilham Aliyev got 2,282,936 votes (84.73 percent).

This year ten candidates competed for the top job, including chairman of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, President Aliyev, Umid Party leader Igbal Aghazade, self-nominated candidate Zahid Oruj, chairman of the United Popular Front Party Gudrat Hasanguliyev, Modern Musavat party leader Hafiz Hajiyev, Azerbaijan Social Democratic Party chairman Araz Alizade, National Revival Party leader Faraj Guliyev, chairman of the Adalat (Justice) party Ilyas Ismayilov, Jamil Hasanli from the opposition National Council as well as chairman of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party Sardar Jalaloghlu.

The number of eligible voters in the country is nearly 5,145,000. The voting is conducted in 5,492 polling stations. Thirty-eight polling stations were set up abroad.

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