"ORINATS YERKIR" PARTY PLANS TO APPEAL THE RESULTS OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN ARMENIA IN COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
May 16 2007

Yerevan, May 16. /Mediamax/. "Orinats Yerkir" party (OYP) plans to
appeal the results of the parliamentary elections in Armenia in Courts
of First Instance and the Constitutional Court, and in case of need –
in the European Court of Human Rights.

Mediamax reports that the leader of the OYPArtur Baghdasarian said
this in Yerevan today.

According to him, "the results of the elections were influenced by
mass bribery of electors, carried out both on the eve of the voting
and on the day of elections outside the polling stations". Besides,
Artur Baghdasarian argues that forged passports were used during
the elections.

"We plan to press for a recount of votes in over 400 polling stations,
where, according to the official data, our party did not receive a
single vote, whereas in neighboring polling stations "Orinats Yerkir"
gained tens of votes", Artur Baghdasarian stated.

He welcomed the fact that the oppositional parties in total gained
450 thousand votes. "This means that the opposition should get united
before the next presidential elections, and set out by a single front",
leader of OYP stated.