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.