Presidential candidate Artur Baghdasaryan calls on CEC to take
immediate measures to recount votes

2008-02-23 13:53:00

ArmInfo. Presidential candidate, Leader of Orinats Yerkir party Artur
Baghdasaryan applied to the Armenian CEC or immediate instruction to
the district election commission to recount votes to ‘restore the real
picture of the vote>.’

The statement by A. Baghdasaryan’s campaign headquarters provided to
ArmInfo, Saturday, says the election was conducted by gross violations
of the election and criminal legislation, mass falsifications, warning,
beating and blackmailing of voters, agents, members of election
commissions, journalists and observers.

The statement says that idleness of the CEC had led to disorders at
some election commission in the period of appeals against the voting
result. In particular, some election commission just refused to accept
the applications by Baghdasaryan’s campaign agents, others created
artificial obstacles to consideration of the applications. The only
polling station in Yerevan 9/31 conducted vote recount that showed that
the votes in favor of A. Bahgdasaryan were reduced by 50 ballots.
Similar cases were observed at the polling stations 34, 35, 38 and
others.

The statement says that the CEC must immediately restore the real
picture of voting otherwise a serious doubt will be cast on the
legitimacy of the election which is pregnant with public confrontation
and serious damage to the international image of the country. All this
will make the country vulnerable to external and internal challenges.