"UNITED JAVAKHK" INTENDS TO STRUGGLE FOR ANNOUNCING INVALID ELECTIONS OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT BODIES IN AKHALKALAK
Noyan Tapan News Agency
Oct 9 2006
AKHALKALAK, OCTOBER 9, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The "United
Javakhk" organization calls on international right protection
organizations and the international community to give a just
estimation to electoral falsifications and electoral violations at
the elections of local self-goverment bodies of Akhalkalak and to
assist re-establishment of justice with all means. This is said in
the statement spread by the "United Javakhk" democratic alliance
public organization concerning preliminary results of elections of
local self-government bodies of the region of Akhalkalak, Georgia.
It is also said in the statement that organization of elections
in the region of Akhalkalak, the votion process and summing up of
results were accompanied by considerable ommissions and violations,
" which cast a serious doubt on the election results’ being just and
honest and prove that they allowed serious falsifications "in favour
of the "United National Movement" party.
Wide-spread falsifications again prove that the central authorities
are not ready in relations with national minorities to take into
consideration the population’s real strivings and hopes what makes even
worse the social-psychological atmosphere in the region and exhausts
the populations’ fickle reputation towards the central authorities
of Georgia," the statement authors mention.
The "United Javakhk" democratic alliance, particularly, mentions the
following violations revealed by itself:
– Names of numerous died or absent citizens were involved in the
electoral lists, and names of people registered in the region were
absent.
– Lists were fastened later than the fixed time in numerous polling
stations, and voters had no possibility to restore their voting right.
8 of the 9 members of the Akhalkalak regional electoral commission
are tied with each other with friendly and clan ties and represent the
ruling party. Numerous facts of votion with other person’s passport,
a person’s dropping two or more voting papers into the ballot-box
were revealed.
Numerous violations of the votion and counting order, including
stealing the ballot-box, were fixed in different polling stations.
Representatives of the "United Javakhk" democratic alliance public
organization participated in the elections in the staff of the
"Industry to Save Georgia" alliance.