ORINATS YERKIR IS GOING TO APPEAL AGAINST ELECTIONS RESULTS AT
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

YEREVAN, MAY 13, NOYAN TAPAN. At the May 13 sitting RA CEC ratified
with a protocol the results of the NA elections by proportional system
held the day before. 3 out of 9 members of CEC, representative of
Ardarutiun bloc Felix Khachatrian, representative of National Unity
Zaven Pluzian and representative of OYP Sona Sargsian refused to sign
the protocol. In their words, violations in preelectoral and electoral
processes could have a considerable impact on the election
results. The OYP representative also stated that on the day of voting
the party officially applied to proper bodies and CEC in connection
with the violations. The party is also going to appeal against the
election results at the Constitutional Court. It is noteworthy that
before ratification of protocol of preliminary results the
representative of Ardarutiun with the same motivation had offered to
invalidate the election results by proportional system, but only above
mentioned three members were for the proposal.

According to the CEC protocol, from 2 316 038 voters included in the
lists 1 389 521 voters took part in voting at all of 1923 polling
stations. 40 312 ballot-papers were recognized invalid. The number of
valid ballot-papers is 1 350 559, the number of inaccuracies is 10
942.

The Republican Party of Armenia received 457 032 votes,

Bargavach Hayastan Party 204 443 votes,

ARFD 177 192 votes,

Orinats Yerkir Party 95 256 votes,

Zharangutiun Party 80 890 votes,

United Labor Party 59 307 votes,

National Unity Party 49 863 votes,

Nor Zhamanakner Party 47 018 votes,

People’s Party 37 034 votes,

Dashink Party 33 093 votes,

People’s Party of Armenia 23 629 votes,

Hanrapetutiun Party 22 609 votes,

Impeachment bloc 17 808 votes,

Communist Party of Armenia 8835 votes,

National Democratic Party 8591 votes,

Democratic Way Party 8468 votes,

National Consent Party 4251 votes,

Marxist Party of Armenia 2896 votes,

Democratic Party of Armenia 3780 votes,

Christian-Democratic Revival Party 3591 votes,

Youth Party of Armenia 2302 votes,

United Liberal National Party 2748 votes,

Social-Democrat Hnchakian Party 1033 votes.