RA CEC DISMISSES APPLICATION OF ANC AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE WITH MOTIVATION OF LACK OF BASES OF INVALIDATING YEREVAN COUNCILOF ELDERS ELECTIONS
NOYAN TAPAN
JUNE 8, 2009
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 8, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA Central Electoral Commission,
at the June 6 special sitting, by a decision made with 6 votes
"for" and 2 "against" dismissed the application of Armenian National
Congress bloc’s authorized representative Patvakan Hovakimian, "as
the application and the correspondence attached to it have no bases of
invalidating the May 31 Yerevan Council of Elders elections." Hamlet
Abrahamian and Zoya Tadevosian representing ARFD and Zharangutiun
(Heritage), respectively, voted against.
According to co-reporter, CEC Chairman Garegin Azarian, the
study of the application consisting of 370 pages and of materials
attached to it shows that "the goal of presenting them is to create
a large-scale correspondence." It was mentioned that there are
materials on polling stations, where voting results have been already
invalidated by district electoral commissions or have been studied by
the RA Prosecutor’s Office within the framework of a criminal case, a
recounting has been done. "However, applications containing anonymous,
not signed applications and protocols, those having no addressee,
no date of issue, repeated, not coherent and containing emotional
thoughts and making no demand" are also attached to the application.
The decision made also recorded that RA CEC does not deny that
violations were also committed on May 31, meanwhile mentioning that
their considerable part was liquidated on the very voting day, through
efficient measures undertaken by electoral commissions. Chairmen of
all 13 district electoral commissions present at the sitting refuted
ANC authorized representative’s assertions that district electoral
commissions mainly had refused to give proxies extracts from registers
or to register their application-complaints.