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President Ilham Aliyev will overwhelmingly win the presidential elections on October 15, a recent public opinion poll claims.
86.3% of respondents in the poll, which analyzed the pre-election mood across the country, said they would vote for President Ilham Aliyev of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP).
The poll was conducted among 12,500 people by the independent research center ELS.
The next popular, according to poll results, is the leader of the Umid (Hope) Party, Igbal Aghazada, who is supported by 2.3% of the electorate. He is followed by the chairman of the Whole Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, Gudrat Hasanguliyev, with 1.1% of respondents promising to vote for him at the polls.
Muasir (Modern) Musavat Party`s Hafiz Hajiyev came in fourth, with 0.9% of potential votes. Chairman of the Great Establishment Party, Fazil Gazanfaroghlu, has the same public approval rating.
The former chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) Supreme Council, Gulamhuseyn Alibayli, ranked sixth, with 0.6% approval.
The leader of the Azerbaijan Liberal-Democratic Party, Fuad Aliyev, trails in the list, with 0.5%, according to the poll.
1.5% of those polled asked for their choice to be kept confidential. 1.6% of respondents said they were undecided about going to the polls, while 4.3% have no intention to cast ballots at all.
Azerbaijan`s Central Election Commission (CEC) has so far registered 924 international observers to monitor the presidential election.
The observers represent 18 international organizations and 48 countries, with most of them being members of observation missions of the Council of Europe, the OSCE and CIS, the CEC told AssA-Irada.
Of note, registration of observers is to be completed 10 days before election day, which means that submission of documents by those seeking to monitor the upcoming poll has drawn to a close.
The CEC also said it was scrutinizing the applications it had received, therefore, the number of international observers is expected to rise further.