APPEAL COURT CLARIFIES OBSERVERS’ STATEMENT

Panorama.am
20:26 15/05/2007

Alina Yengoyan, press secretary of the appeal court, clarified on
court files on election processes, which were also reported in the
observers’ statement.

The observers’ statement says that court rulings were in some cases
arbitrary and not consistent. The report pinpointed to court cases
canceling the registration of candidates in 19 and 39 election
communities.

According to the clarification, Armavir court canceled the registration
of Hakob Hakobyan and Susanna Harutunyan because the court found two
and three fake signatures in the nomination list of the candidates.

Vayots Zor court received an application to cancel the nomination
of a candidate in election community 39 because he used the Armenian
flag during the campaign, which is banned by law. The court decided
to warn the candidate to refrain from such actions but it did not
cancel the nomination.

"In both cases, there were no legal contradictions in the court
rulings. Therefore the court rulings cannot be described as not
arbitrary and non-consistent," Yengoyan told Panorama.am.