LEVON TER-PETROSYAN’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN TEAM DEMANDS NEW PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN ARMENIA
Today.Az
21 February 2008
Considering falsifications, which distorted the will of the people,
the election campaign team of Levon Ter-Petrosyan does not recognize
results of elections, declared by the Central Election Commission,
in Armenia and demands holding of new presidential elections.
"We intend to continue national fight for establishment of a legal
power in Armenia and restoration of people’s dignity", the election
campaign team of Levon Ter-Petrosyan announces.
According to the announcement, presidential elections and voting
making-up was accompanied by "impudent law offenses everywhere".
"The citizens of Armenia were subject to abusing physical and moral
violence, and numerous assaults and kidnapping of parliamentarians,
reporters, plenipotentiaries and observers were recorded, which
remained unnoticed by law-enforcement bodies", the statement says.
According to the election campaign team, ballot papers were thrown in
during the elections, while militaries of urgent service and residents
of numerous villages were obliged to vote openly under the control
of state representatives.
"Yet, the main violations were recorded in process of votes
calculation. The process was carried out in conditions of power cut
at election points, provocations addressed to authorized persons,
recognition of ballot papers for Levon Ter-Petrosyan as invalid. All
these cases were fixed by the plenipotentiaries of the ex-president
in numerous protocols and there is a great number of proofs of it",
the announcement says.