The president is directly elected by popular vote by an absolute majority of votes cast, with no turnout requirement.14 The 2009 and 2016 constitutional amendments increased the presidential term from five to seven years, eliminated limits on the number of terms and gave the head of the state the power to call an early presidential election.15 10 In particular, in the 2016 Opinion On the Draft Mod. [...] 13 See the 2022 Joint Opinion of the Venice Commission and the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law (DGI) of the Council of Europe on the Law on Media, Paragraph 52. [...] The Election Law includes the prohibition of the misuse of administrative resources as well as of the provision of money, goods or services free of charge, promises of rewards on the basis of election results. [...] With the official start of the campaign period on 15 January, the ODIHR EOM commenced quantitative and qualitative monitoring of six TV stations and six online media outlets.39 34 See the 2022 Legal Analysis On the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan “On Media” commissioned by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and the 2022 Joint Opinion of the Venice Commission and the Directorate Gene. [...] The Court held that there had been a violation of Article 11 of the ECHR in respect of the delay in the registration of the EMC and its dissolution.
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