ARARAT MAHTESIAN: POLICE MAINLY MANAGED TO IMPLEMENT ITS ACTIVITY ON VOTING DAY OF RA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
Noyan Tapan
Feb 20, 2008
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 20, NOYAN TAPAN. On the voting day of the RA
presidential elections, February 19, 30 calls on electoral violations
or falsifications were received in the Police. Ararat Mahtesian,
the First Deputy Chief of the RA Police, said during the February 20
meeting with journalists in CEC.
It was mentioned that 7 out of 30 calls were not grounded. The First
Deputy Chief of Police assured that the Police mainly managed to
implement its activity by ensuring keeping of public order within
the law, as well as normal work of electoral commissions. He said
that the Chief of Police had instructed parallel with investigation
to study the issue of legality of actions of the policemen, who were
in the given polling station.
A. Mahtesian said that the issue of committing electoral falsifications
through giving form N 9 (a document temporarily used instead of a
passport) is speculated very much. In his words, it is almost excluded,
as the certificate contains passport data, a photo with the seal of the
passport department. The fact is also speculated that people having
been left out of electoral rolls on the basis of Police certificates
can vote by both main and additional lists. As A. Mahtesian clarified,
it is also excluded, as no certificate was given to citizens, who
have been taken off the books, in the passport department of their
old place of residence, and a certificate on being taken off the
books in their permanant place of residence was required in the courts.
Sayat Shirinian, the Head of the Public Relations and Information
Department of the RA Police, said that 264 citizens have restored
their suffrage through the passport departments, 49 by judicial order,
1330 citizens have received forms N 9.