May 12 parliamentary election in Armenia were free and transparent:
CIS observers

Arminfo
2007-05-13 11:04:00

The international observers from CIS consider the May 12 parliamentary
election have been held in line with the norms of the Electoral
Legislation, Head of CIS monitoring mission, Executive Secretary of
CIS Executive Committee Vladimir Rushailo said at today’s press-
conference.

According to him, the CIS observers recognize the parliamentary
election open, free and transparent. According to them, these election
have become the most important factor of stable development and
further democratization in Armenia’s life. Moreover, V. Rushailo said,
the country’s state agencies implemented specific practical measures
to assure the voter’s right to make a free choice the voting day, to
develop the freedom of belief expression and pluralism of
opinions. "No elections in the world can be absolutely sterile,
however, we follow for the fixed violations, which could affect the
voting result, not to have mass character", V. Rushailo said.

He also noted that the CIS observers offer the other international
observers, who share the conclusions and estimations of CIS monitoring
mission, to join this statement. Vladimir Rushailo also said that the
separate violations and omissions during the election campaign were
mainly of technical character and did not affect much the free will of
the Armenian voters.

V. Rushailo also said that in the opinion of CIS experts, these
election were held at higher organizational level in many aspects, as
compared with the previous 2003 election. Asked how much the
estimation of CIS observers may differ from that of the European
observers, V. Rushailo said no serious remarks and differences are
observed in estimations. He proposed to wait for the official
conclusion of OSCE mission to be promulgated 2 hours later.