Early presidential elections will be held on Sunday in Abkhazia
Residents of Abkhazia this Sunday is expected to choose a new President, in addition to fight for the seat of the head of the country will be 3 major-General and one army General. The favorite in the election race is considered to be the opposition candidate, former Vice-President Raul Khajimba, he goes on presidential elections for the fourth time.
According to the survey of a large number of citizens, not from Khajimba behind Acting Head of the security Service Aslan Bzhania, which can be attributed to the supporters of the outgoing President Alexander Ankvab. Two other candidates - the Acting Minister of defense Mirab Kishmaria and ex-interior Minister Leonid Jasba greatly inferior to their rivals.
One of the features of the current early presidential elections will be the opportunity to vote in the countries that Abkhazia did not realize. For example, in Turkey, hosts one of the most large Abkhazian Diaspora, the government of Abkhazia decided to open one polling station.
In addition to Turkey, the CEC Abkhazia is going to open foreign polling stations for voting in the capital of Russia and Cherkessk.
It is noteworthy that along with the expansion of voting places, the current Abkhazian authorities in early elections went on controversial measures: deprived of voting rights almost 23 thousand residents of the Gali and tkvarchalskogo areas due to the fact that together with the Abkhaz they had a Georgian passport. Recall that According to the Abkhazian law, dual citizenship can only be with the Russian Federation.
The problem of distribution of Abkhazian passports at the border with Georgia areas has become one of the detonators of the political fall that led to the early resignation of the President of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab. However, almost fifteen percent went to the polls Abkhazia will not be able to vote.
Another electoral innovation will be a marking of voters went to the polls in order to avoid fraud in the vote.
All in all, the Central election Commission has registered 132 having the right to vote. In accordance with the laws of Abkhazia, the elections are considered valid if they participated in more than half of the voters.
on the area of Abkhazia 154 formed polling station in 33 constituencies. On elections 85 accredited international observers from such countries As Armenia, Bulgaria, Brazil, Venezuela, Germany, India, Italy, China, Luxembourg, Nauru, Russian Federation, San Marino, Ukraine, Finland, France, Czech Republic and Japan. In addition, in Abkhazia came observers from Donetsk people's Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria and South Ossetia.
As said the head of the CEC of the state Batal, Tabagua, intermediate results of the elections of the President of Abkhazia will be announced on August 25.
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