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President Aliyev casts vote at municipal election

23 December 2014 [13:25] - TODAY.AZ

/By AzerNews/

By Nigar Orujova

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, his wife Mehriban Aliyeva and family members voted at the municipal election in Baku on December 23.

The polling stations are open for voting from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. Around 15,035 members of 1,607 municipalities must be elected.

Turnout has been high at the polling station No 6 of Sabail constituency No 29 since early hours. President Ilham Aliyev cast his ballot. Then Mehriban Aliyeva and family members voted.

The election is conducted on 118 constituencies. The voting will take place at 5,015 polling stations. Around 4,887 are permanent and 128 - temporary. The municipal election is not held in seven constituencies situated in the territory occupied by Armenia.

Around 37,077 candidates were registered in the municipal election. Around 13,907 candidates were nominated by eight political parties, namely, New Azerbaijan party, Ana Vatan party, Civil Solidarity Party, Umid party, Azerbaijani Social Democratic Party, National Revival Movement Party, Azerbaijan Democratic Reforms Party and Boyuk Qurtulus party.

Around 23,061 candidates are self-nominated and 109 candidates were nominated by the initiative groups.

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