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\n Azerbaijan is holding extraordinary parliamentary elections today, with ballots opening at 8 am local time. Polls close at 7 pm.\n<\/p>\n

\n According to the Central Election Commission, 1,314 candidates will participate in the elections at today with over 5 million registered voters able to vote at 5,573 polling stations. 79% of the registered candidates are men and 21% are women.\n<\/p>\n

\n As voting draws to a close a number of violations have already been reported across the country:\n<\/p>\n

\n According to Khalid Bagirov, the candidate for deputy from the 76th Lankaran-Astara constituency, the advisor, members of the election commission and observers were
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\n beaten
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\n at polling station No. 30. One woman, Jala Bayramova, was reportedly dragged by her hair at polling station No. 16.\n<\/p>\n

\n Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, candidate for the 29th Sabail constituency, says he is not allowed to attend the polling station.\n<\/p>\n

\n Emil Pashayev reports that police took away an election observer in the 27th Sabanchu constituency at polling station No. 2.\n<\/p>\n

\n A woman registered in Masalli attempted to vote at another polling station where she was not registered, and a
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\n video
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\n records poll officials appearing to allow her to.\n<\/p>\n

\n RFL Azerbaijani reports that at the 124th Shusdha-Aghdam-Khojali-Khojavand No. 14 polling station early in the day, 5 people had voted yet over 40 used ballots were visible. Officials refused to explain the discrepency.\n<\/p>\n

\n At the 125th Zangilan-Gubali constituency's polling station No. 34 the voting process was stopped after protests by observers over violations, including not allowing for videos to be taken and voter fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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