Summary

Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center (EMDS) is an independent and impartial non-governmental organization which work for holding free and fair elections, development of civil society and democracy in Azerbaijan. EMDS believes that free and fair elections will be a significant contribution to promotion of democratic traditions, to enhancement of well-fare of citizens and to human rights protection.

EMDS believes that the establishment of the democratic pre-election conditions are essential for holding free and fair parliamentary elections on 1 November 2015.
However the current situation – restriction of freedom of speech and media, freedom of
assembly and freedom of association creates serious restrictions for holding free and fair
Parliamentary Elections on 1 November 2015.

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