ORGANIZATION CHOICE IS YOURS PLANS TO HOLD LARGE-SCALE OBSERVATION MISSION DURING PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

Noyan Tapan
Feb 28 2007

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, NOYAN TAPAN. The Choice is Yours NGO plans to
hold both long-term and short-term observation mission during the
parliamentary elections. Organization Chairman Haroutiun Hambartsumian
reported this at the February 28 press conference.

In his words, this year, in difference to the previous elections,
during which 50-60% electoral districts were under observation,
the organization plans to hold a large-scale observation activity,
which will include all electoral districts. It is supposed that
during elections, 41 out of more than 4000 observers of Choice is
Yours organization will carry out long-term mission in majoritarian
electoral districts.

"We are going to watch the whole period of preelection agitation and
after the elections we plan to announce the preliminary results,"
H. Hambartsumian said. He expressed confidence that the number of
falsifications will considerably decrease thanks to amendments to
the Electoral Code.

In response to Noyan Tapan correspondent’s question, whether the
organization is going to have control mechanism over preparation
of protocols, H. Hambartsumian said that irrespective of electoral
commissions’ providing final protocols, the observers of Choice is
Yours organization will have their own forms of protocols where the
final data will be introduced.