15/10/2010 Election observation
Strasbourg 15.10.2010 – A five-member PACE delegation led by Paul Wille (Belgium, ALDE) will carry out a pre-electoral mission to Baku from 19 to 21 October 2010, ahead of the parliamentary elections on 7 November 2010, to assess the electoral framework and campaign.
The delegation will meet the President of the Republic, the Speaker of the Parliament, the Minister of the Interior, and the representatives of the political parties and coalitions standing for election. Meetings are also scheduled with the Chair of the Central Electoral Commission, the Chair of the Constitutional Court, the Azerbaijani delegation to the PACE, the Head of the OSCE/ODIHR mission in Azerbaijan, and the representatives of civil society, the media, and the diplomatic community.
A full 30-member delegation from the Assembly will be in the country on the day of the vote to observe the elections.
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A press conference is scheduled for 21 October at 1 pm at the Park Inn Hotel in Baku.
Members of the delegation:
Head of the delegation: Paul Wille (Belgium, ALDE)
Group of the European People’s Party (EPP/CD)
Pedro Agramunt (Spain)
Socialist Group (SOC)
Tadeusz Iwinski (Poland)
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)
Paul Wille (Belgium)
European Democrat Group (EDG)
Øyvind Vaksdal (Norway)
Group of the Unified European Left (UEL)
Jaakko Laakso (Finland)
Contacts:
Vladimir Dronov, Interparliamentary Co-operation and Election Observation Department, mobile: +33 (0)6 63 49 37 92
Council of Europe Office in Baku: tel. +994 12 497 31 56