The other election

[1amongmany]

We all know that the United States will have a Presidential election soon and we all have different opinions on the election process, the canidates, and the outcome but what you may not know is that Azerbaijan will have a Presidential election soon also. I know you probably don't care and I don't blame you.
As a person who grew up in democracy I can see a lot of things wrong with this election. I am not in a position to be able to do anything, I can only sit and watch. My democratic mind will not allow me to ignore the election process here so I have been keeping up with the details. Today I read on an English news website the following article and found it rather strange. Some of the numbers didn't make much sense to me. So I would like to ask you, the forum readers, for your input whether good or bad. I am not really looking for explainations, just your thoughts or a question if you have one.


Most voters, 78.3%, intend to vote for the working president of the country Ilham Aliyev at the upcoming presidential elections on October 15, says a report of the Independent center of researches ELS, holding a poll of voters, according to RIA Novosti.
As is reported, the percentage of those, voting for other candidates for the president ranges between 0.5%-0.1% of all voters.

It is also said that 88.9% respondents declared intention to take part in voting. Another 5% of respondents announced that they will not take part in the elections and 6,1% have not yet clarified their attitude to this question.

70.9% of respondents answered positively to the question of whether elections will be fair, 20% negatively and 9.1% found it hard to say.

Asked about their expectations regarding decisions of the head of state in period of elections, 68.2% respondents spoke for adoption of decisions, aimed at the resolution of the Karabakh conflict, 59.1% for reducing prices and curbing inflation, 52.2% for raising wages, 48.7% for opening new job opportunities, 38.2% for strengthening control over the execution of laws, 32% for combat with corruption, 32.1% for due evaluation of human labor and care of people.

91.7% respondents consider the situation in Azerbaijan stable, 5.9% unstable, 2.4% found it hard to say.

The poll was held through representative selection and it involved 6,000 voters.

[sliver]

no other elections )

[1amongmany]

you are right, "no other election" but you forgot to add - "that anyone else cares about" :lol:

this could actually prove important to the stability of the US-Russia relationship considering the location but because it hasn't made headlines on Fox or CNN no one cares

[brown-raider]

nope didn't know that....:becky:

[sliver]

you are right, "no other election" but you forgot to add - "that anyone else cares about" :lol:

this could actually prove important to the stability of the US-Russia relationship considering the location but because it hasn't made headlines on Fox or CNN no one cares

yep, as french said "public opinion is the heel of Achilles /pique of honour/ of the western world ) too great dependency from what and how massmedia presents.. that is very committed in turn
as far as i understood, d. cheiny failed when he was in azerbaijan last time..

[1amongmany]

"as far as i understood, d. cheiny failed when he was in azerbaijan last time.. "

the only thing that came out in the media here was when he arrive and when he left....does this equal failure? I think so

[sliver]

"as far as i understood, d. cheiny failed when he was in azerbaijan last time.. "

the only thing that came out in the media here was when he arrive and when he left....does this equal failure? I think so

yep, i think so.. it's oriental tact to keep silent about 'no result' )

[Lucker]

Why don't you tell us how you see matters .
How can we comment on a poll unless we know who the Pollsters really are and who pays the wages ?
I am aware that the US have made around $3million available to assist transparency . In principle this is excellent because previous elections stank to high heaven .
Of course the US have the same type of interest in your country as they have in Georgia , for example .
There's nothing wrong in that , providing their intentions are not just selfish -- everybody will have to make their own minds up about that -- and , at the same time , compare their presence with other alternative influences .
I assume your existing President will sweep back into power and US influence will be stepped up .
Do you agree?
Is that the best available option ?
If not , what better solution do you suggest ?

[1amongmany]

well I was really asking for some outsider's interpretation of the numbers...

the numbers that really popped out at me were:
78.3%, intend to vote for the working president and 70.9% of respondents answered positively to the question of whether elections will be fair, 20% negatively and 9.1% found it hard to say.

this sounds to me like people are going to vote for the current administration although they know it will not be a fair election....the actual voting process will be fair because of the involvement of the international community however the problem is happening now, opposition parties are being kicked out of their offices, not being allowed to assemble, and arrests of magazine and newspaper owners and editors who speak out against the current government or openly support the opposition....

people want reform but are scared to speak up

[Lucker]

I don't know the answers ,IamPised
But if only 10% of people answer to a question but all of them agree on the same answer , it is recorded as 100% said ......
It is easy to play with figures and I would take no notice of these until you have sources and details that you know are correct .

[huney]

I once knew a wise woman whose favorite response to questions like this was to say 'Figures never lie, but liars often figure'.

Personally, I have never trusted polls or pollsters. It is far too easy to direct the outcome of a survey through creative construction of questions and selective statisical sampling.