RA CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TO CONTINUE HEARINGS ON CLAIM OF DEPUTY CANDIDATE FROM 36TH SINGLE-MANDATE DISTRICT

arminfo
2007-06-29 11:00:00

RA CC will continue hearings on the claim of a deputy candidate from
the 36th single-mandate district Mushegh Saghatelyan.

To recall, the hearings on the claim of M. Saghatelyan, who required to
cancel the results of voting in the 36th district and call reelection ,
started on June 25.

During the hearings, representative of the claimer Gevork Minasyan said
that according to the decision of the district election committee from
May 17, 2007, a non-party Mkhitar Varagyan, who gathered over 14,000
votes, was announced a winner at the election, the second place was
taken by representative of the "Prosperous Armenia" party Mushegh
Petrosyan, who gathered over 13,000 votes, the third place was taken
by a non-party Mushegh Saghatelyan, having gathered a bit more than
7,000 votes. As the claimer’s representative said, the true number
of inaccuracies during the voting is not 131, as indicated in the
final Protocol of the 36th election committee, but 9 632, i.e. more
than the difference in the votes among the candidates, that is a good
reason to cancel the voting results and call a reelection. However,
during the hearings, the claimer’s representatives could not give
a distinct answer to the question of CC Head Gagik Haroutyunyan:
"What these digits are confirmed by, where have they been taken
from". Having heard the defendant’s party, RA Constitutional Court
announced a three-day interval to study the final protocols of the
voting in 26 of 59 polling stations of the 36th single-mandate district
in RA Shirak region.