WRONGDOERS WERE NOT PUNISHED

Lragir.am
31-05-2007 16:36:38

The chair of the Regional Development Center – Transparency
International Armenia NGO stated May 31 that the imperfections of the
legislations fostered electoral fraud on May 12, ARKA reported. Amalia
Kostanyan thinks the improvement of the electoral legislation is
welcome but not sufficient. A program is needed which will enable
punishing falsifiers, and since there is no such program, there is
no need to expect progress in the elections.

Amalia Kostanyan thinks hidden advertisement gives rise to major
problems.

She points to the use of the administrative resource, as well as the
attempts to use the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the army
for the propaganda of the Republican Party.

According to the NGO, the Republican Party spent 79.1 million
drams on the election campaign, Bargavach Hayastan spent 129.6
million. Meanwhile, according to the Armenian Electoral Code, the
highest sum to be spent on election campaign is 60 million drams.

According to the organization, there were breaches in the pre-election
period, during the voting and in the post-election period. Meanwhile,
the wrongdoers were not punished, and there is an atmosphere of fear,
Amalia Kostanyan says.