CIS Observation Mission makes report on presidential elections in Azerbaijan

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CIS Observation Mission will consist of 389 people during presidential elections on October 15, APA reports.

Head of CIS Observation Mission Yevgeniy Sloboda said, while rendering the report, APA reports.

He said that the observers were parliamentarians of CIS member countries, representatives of central election commissions, diplomatic missions, CIS Executive Committee and CIS Interparliamentary Assembly.

Sloboda added that there were 23 long-term observers. To him, representations of headquarters will be opened in Nakhchivan, Ganja, Khachmaz and Lankaran. Sloboda stated that there were enough observers and observation would be carried out in all regions and observers would arrive in the site 2-3 days before the elections.

“Our observers will be in polling stations from the beginning of the elections till the end and will participate in calculating process of ballots”, he said.

Sloboda added that Sergey Lebedev, Head of CIS Observation Mission, CIS Executive Secretary will arrive in Azerbaijan one day before elections, visit several regions, meet Boris Frlec, Head of OSCE Observation Mission and observe elections in several polling stations.

Sloboda announced the report. The reports says that all measures have been taken to conduct free, transparent and democratic elections, there is calm election campaign, there is not serious violation of laws in ConEcs , equal condition has been created to the presidential candidates for election campaign.