EUROPEAN OBSERVERS DO NOT RULE OUT POSSIBILITY OF RECALCULATION OF VOTES
arminfo
2008-02-20 18:30:00
ArmInfo. European observers do not rule out possibility of recount of
votes over the presidential election in Armenia, OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly Vice-President Anne-Marie Lizine, leading OSCE PA Monitoring
Mission, said at the press-conference in Yerevan today.
‘Recount of votes is possible if needed. Some our colleagues were
witnesses of several negative cases at ballot stations, but they are
just observers, but those who are responsible for the process may
initiate recount of votes’, -Anne-Marie Lizine said and added that
they could apply for recount of votes till 14:00 PM local time, on 20
February. She also said that observers do not comment on the voting
result but observe and comment on the election process itself. ‘We
are not competent to comment on the election results, we appeal only
to the facts we have’, – she emphasized.