ARMAN MELIKIAN CALLS FOR GIVING RA CITIZENS ABROAD POSSIBILITY TO TAKE PART IN ELECTIONS

Noyan Tapan
Jan 9, 2008

YEREVAN, JANUARY 9, NOYAN TAPAN. Arman Melikian, a candidate
for presidency in the forthcoming presidential elections in RA,
calls RA authorities for reconsidering the legislation and giving RA
citizens living abroad a possibility to take part in the elections. As
A. Melikian said at the January 9 press conference, if no one responds
to his appeal in the coming days, he will apply to the Constitutional
Court with that issue.

He said that according to the current legislation, elections are held
only in the territory of Armenia, "no electoral districts are formed
abroad, and several hundreds of thousands of RA citizens are deprived
of the possibility to use their constitutional law." Whereas, according
to him, a diplomatic representation of any country is the territory
of the given country, therefore elections should be organized in all
RA Embassies.

According to the candidate for presidency, depriving RA citizens
living abroad of the possibility to vote contributes to electoral
falsifications, as the latters are included in the electoral rolls.