{"id":122537,"date":"2019-12-23T11:47:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T07:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1905.az\/?p=122537"},"modified":"2019-12-23T11:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T07:47:45","slug":"municipal-elections-kick-off-in-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/municipal-elections-kick-off-in-azerbaijan\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipal elections kick off in Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1577073618583508220_1000x669.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"383\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-122511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1577073618583508220_1000x669.jpg 600w, https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1577073618583508220_1000x669-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1577073618583508220_1000x669-400x255.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Voting got underway in 5,049 polling stations in 118 constituencies. In 7 constituencies the elections are not held because they are located in the territories occupied by Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The number of eligible voters is 4,972,356. A total of 5,020,287 ballots were distributed among the polling stations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The elections are observed by 52,636 local and 17 international monitors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Webcams were installed in 1000 polling stations to ensure transparency of voting. The list of the webcam-equipped polling stations is available at websites of the Central Election Commission, and was published in the press.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Polling stations close at 19.00.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/azertag.az\/en\/xeber\/Municipal_elections_kick_off_in_Azerbaijan-1372963\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"azertac-link\" rel=\"noopener\">AZERTAC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":122511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actual-news-2"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1577073618583508220_1000x669.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}