THE NEW ELECTORAL CODE DID NOT JUSTIFY HOPES

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| 16:42:28 | 17-06-2005 | Politics |

“This time the hopes of the society to have a flawless Electoral Code
which could secure the fairness and transparency of the elections
organized was not justified. The guarantee could be the Electoral
Committees the real balance of which is not secured by the acting
Electoral Code”. This was the announcement of Haroutyun Haroutyunyan,
head of the non-governmental organization “Choice is yours” made
during the discussion in hotel Yerevan.

He considers that even in that case a flawless Electoral Code could
not guarantee fair and transparent elections as for that will is
needed. But he also said that the RA Law on amending the Electoral
Code has some improvements.

Deputy head of the organization Khachik Voskanyan mentioned the
non-introduction of the ink fingerprints as one of the shortcomings
of the Law. He wonders why the deputies considered it something
unsuitable to our mentality and did not accept it. “Forging elections
is suitable for our mentality, and ink fingerprints are not?”, he
asked rhetorically.

Mentioning other shortcoming of the Law, the non-governmental
organization “Choice is Yours” calls everyone to do their best to
secure the fairness of the coming elections of the local governing
bodies in coming September-October.