ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS POINTS TO VIOLATIONS COMMITTED BEFORE ELECTIONS
Noyan Tapan
May 25, 2009
YEREVAN, MAY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. During the election campaign of
Yerevan Council of Elders elections the Armenian National Congress
has recorded a number of gross violations, the authors of which are
the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), the Administrative Court of
Armenia, and the RA Defence Ministry. ANC Spokesperson Arman Musinian
reported at the May 25 press conference. He said that CEC without any
explanation refused to discuss opposition representative’s proposal to
put a stamp in voters’ passports and then made a decision to exslude
stamps in passports.
Reminding that voters’ passports were sealed during the 2008
presidential elections, A. Musinian said that thus the possibility
of rigging, in particular, repeated voting by one person, was limited
to some extent.
According to the ANC Spokesperson, the Administrative Court
groundlessly refused to accept for examination opposition’s application
that regards the fact that a smaller number of women are represented
in RPA and other pro-governmental parties’ proportional lists than
it is established by the law. It should be mentioned that according
to the law, 15% candidates on the lists should be women, while,
according to A. Musinian, the above mentioned parties did not ensure
that requirement of the law.
The ANC Spokesperson said that in order to falsify the elections
the authorities are going to use not only the criminal forces, but
also the army and the Police. According to him, the Defence Ministry
Spokesperson in essence confirmed that documents on involving the
army in the elections are circulated in the armed forces. According
to A. Musinian, in that connection ANC has already applied to the
Prosecutor General’s Office.