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The voting activity in Azerbaijan is much higher than in EU countries, Member of the European Parliament from Poland Jacek Wlosowicz told journalists on October 9.

Polling stations opened throughout Azerbaijan at 8 a.m. on October 9, as the country's citizens start casting ballots for one of the ten presidential candidates.

Wlosowicz said that everything in the polling stations was prepared well enough, noting that observers from different candidates and various countries participate at the polling stations.

"I worked in many observation missions for elections all over the world. Having big experience, I can say that Azerbaijan has organized the election very well," he said.

Bulgarian member of the European Parliament Slavi Binev also noted that very high activity is being observed during Azerbaijani presidential election.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) established 5,273 permanent and 219 temporary polling stations as part of the October 9 presidential elections.

A total of 52,000 people are observing the elections in Azerbaijan, nearly 1,400 of whom are international observers.

The CEC has registered 5,145,000 voters in Azerbaijan, which has a population of around 9.4 million.

Ten candidates are running for presidency, including the chairman of the New Azerbaijan Party, incumbent President Ilham Aliyev, the chairman of Umid Party Igbal Aghazade, self-nominated candidate MP Zahid Oruj, the chairman of the United Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, MP Gudrat Hasanguliyev, the chairman of Modern Musavat Party Hafiz Hajiyev, the chairman of Azerbaijan Social Democratic Party Araz Alizade, the chairman of the National Revival Movement party, MP Faraj Guliyev, the candidate nominated by the initiative group of voters of the National Council of Democratic Forces, Jamil Hasanli, the chairman of Adalat Party, MP Ilyas Ismayilov and the chairman of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party Sardar Jalaloglu.