EPDE Member EMDS (Azerbaijan) Preliminary Report on Presidential Elections in Azerbaijan
EMDS noted few violations during the opening of polling stations on the Election Day. However, the voting process was marred with serious violations (multiple voting, bringing voters to polling stations in groups, voters whose name are not on the list allowed to vote and ballot-box stuffing) similar to ones occurred in previous elections. Observers cooperating […]
EPDE Member EMDS (Azerbaijan) issues second Interim Report on the Pre-election Campaign
EMDS and ICV notes with regret that the government failed to demonstrate progress in democratization of political environment, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association during the election campaigning period. The organizations welcome the significant increase of political interest, political discussions and public interest in overall election process during the 9 October 2013 […]
EPDE Member EMDS (Azerbaijan) issues first Report about Nomination and Registration of Candidates of Presidential Elections in Azerbaijan
Baku, 16 September 2013: Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center (EMDS) and Volunteers International Cooperation Public Union (VIC) conducted long term observation of the first stage of the 9 October 2013 Presidential Elections (10 August – 14 September) of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The monitoring of this stage, which included the pre-election environment […]
EPDE protests detention of civic activists in Azerbaijan
European Platform for Democratic Elections protests the detention of civil society activists in Khachmaz region of Azerbaijan. Baku, 13 February 2013: The European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) condemns yesterday’s incident in Khamaz, Azerbaijan, where a training conducted by representatives of EPDE’s member organization Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center (EMDS) was disrupted by […]