Regarding the conduct of the early Presidential elections in the Republic of Azerbaijan on February 7, a regional seminar dedicated to the investigation of appeals on election right was organized in Ganja within the framework of the joint project of the Central Election Commission with the Institute of Law and Human Rights.

The members of the Expert Groups for Ganjabasar Con. EC participated in the seminar conducted on December 27.

Mr. Fuad Javadov, CEC member informed in his speech that today’s event conducted in new form and content for the first time in the Presidential elections of the Republic of Azerbaijan, targeted for increasing awareness and improving professional skills of the members of the Expert Groups functioning under the Constituency Election Commissions for the investigation of appeals and complaints against actions (lack of actions) and decisions that violate citizens’ rights to vote.

Later the speeches related to the principles of activities of expert groups during elections, practical exercises on cases, solving mock tests and also other interesting and useful issues made by Mr. Gabil Orujov, CEC member, Ms. Vusala Muradkhanli, Attorney and Director of the Department for Training on Human Rights and Expertise, Mr. Hamlet Babayev, Training Expert of the Department for Training on Human Rights and Expertise were heard at the seminar.

Workshops on cases of the election legislation and expert functioning were held and the participants were involved in tests at the practical part of the seminar.

At the end of the seminar, a new helpful guidebook prepared for the first time for the members of the Expert Group were delivered to the participants.

AZERTAJ