Zoya Tedevosyan: Electoral commission representative obstructed vote
at polling station N10/19
10.01.2010 19:08 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Suspended earlier because of a conflict, elections
at 10/19 polling station were resumed. Settlement of conflict which
broke out between polling station chairman Gagik Baghdasaryan and
journalists is in progress.

Commenting on PanARMENIAN.Net reporter’s question whether Election
Commission head has a right to keep electoral lists during elections,
Central Election Commission secretary Abram Bakhchagulyan noted that
according to RA Electoral Code ”no member of the commission has a
right to it”. ”If the situation is out of control, commission member
can risk this step to save the lists. Yet, because of my absence, I
can’t insist on whether the lists were threatened,” CEC secretary
noted.

He also noted that comission members and candidates’ trustees can
apply to Prosecutor General, in case they noticed any violations.

Another representative of the RA CEC Zoya Tadevosyan , in turn,
accused the chairman of the commission of this polling station Gagik
Baghdasaryan in provoking the conflict to prevent the normal course of
voting.

Answering the question of the reporter, the representative of Armenian
National Congress (ANC), Vladimir Karapetyan, who was on site during
the incident, said that the ongoing violations are already documented
in appropriate protocols. According to Vladimir Karapetyan, to punish
the people responsible for the incident they will appeal to the
Prosecutor General’s Office.