The Central Election Commission has announced the first official information on the course of the voting.
Polling stations opened throughout Azerbaijan at 8 a.m. on December 23 as the country holds elections to 1,606 municipalities. A total of 41,462 candidates are running for 15,156 municipal member posts.
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has arrived in St. Petersburg for visit to attend an informal meeting of the CIS Heads of State at the invitation of President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
Azerbaijan has assumed the chairmanship of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking Countries (TURKPA) from Turkey as the council held its 9th meeting at the Milli Majlis in Baku.