PARTICIPANTS OF RALLY ORGANIZED BY LEVON TER-PETROSIAN AND POLITICAL FORCES SUPPORTING HIM FILE APPLICATION-LETTER TO CEC

Noyan Tapan
Feb 22, 2008

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. An application-letter on behalf
of the participants in the February 22 rally of the first Armenian
president Levon Ter-Petrosian and the political forces supporting him
was sent to the RA Central Electoral Commission (CEC). The application,
which was read by the chairman of "New Times" party Aram Karapetian,
contains demands that the CEC should take immediate steps for
disclosure of the election rigging.

According to the application, if the CEC does not take such steps, it
will finally become the main instrument and support for reproduction
of the robber state, sharing all the law-envisaged responsibility
for further developments.

A. Karapetian said that under various pretexts the district electoral
commissions have created obstacles to reception of empowered persons’
applications for recounting. Nevertheless, according to him, L.

Ter-Petrosian’s empowered persons have managed to hand in over 300
applications for recounting. "Until now only one application, the
one related to polling station 5/4, has been checked, as a result
it was revealed that over 100 voting papers with votes for the
presidential candidate L. Ter-Petrosian had been put among voting
papers recognized invalid," he said, adding that the further checking
was stopped without any reason after this fact was discovered.

It is indicated in the application that the electoral commissions are
obviously marking time in order to prevent the recounting applications
from being examined. "During this period, electoral commissions
with great pleasure have checked the polling stations indicated by
empowered persons of the candidates who received less than 1% of
votes. That is, the violations committed during the whole electoral
process are continuing now," is said in the application-letter that
was handed to the CEC in the presence of about 500 rally participants.