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Central Election Commission (CEC), Venice Commission of the Council of Europe and International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) have today held training for the employees of election constituencies responsible for applications and complaints on the theme “Rules of considering applications and complaints”, APA reports.
Chairman of Central Election Commission Mazahir Panahov said the citizens had the right to appeal for any matter in connection with the election process. He said all appeals of the citizens’ should be analyzed transparently and fairly by the election commissions and the appeals should be replied within the period allotted by the law.
Deputy Head of OSCE Office in Baku Alexis Chahtahtinsky said that OSCE seriously approached the issue on considering the appeals and complaints in Azerbaijan.“After the recent parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, a number of recommendations were put forward in the report drawn up by OSCE, one of them was improvement of rules of considering appeals and complaints. It was reflected in the report at that time, since not enough work was done in this field. The law has improved now and the main thing that it should be applied in practice,” he said.
Representative of the Venice Commission Sergey Kuznetsov noted that voting was one of the main points of the election process. He said it was very important to consider complaints in line with the law during the election process.
IFES expert Jonathan Bernstein, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Veronika Kotek shares their views on the theme. The event will be over tomorrow. 65 representatives from 125 election constituencies attend the training. Analogous training will be held for other election constituencies on August 25-26.
