ANC DISCOVERED PARTICIPATION IN ILLEGAL ELECTIONS
news.am
Jan 12 2010
Armenia
After the parliamentary by-elections, oppositional Armenian National
Congress (ANC) discovered that their candidate run for illegal
elections, ANC Coordinator Levon Zurabyan said at the Jan.
12 press conference. Zurabyan underlined that the outrage occurred
when fixing the elections day for January 10, 2010 instead of December
20, 2009.
According to him, it will be the major argument in RA CC where
the opposition intends to file an action demanding declaration of
election results invalid. However, Zurabyan outlined that ANC would
not be confined to it and will lodge a complaint with European Court
as well as Council of Europe. "It is an unprecedented violation,"
ANC representative stated, informing that presently ANC is disputing
the election in two polling districts.
Imprisoned ANC representative, the Haykakan Zhamanak daily Chief
Editor Nikol Pashinyan lost the Jan. 10 parliamentary votes to National
Unity MP Ara Simonyan (authority candidate). A number of violations,
such as beating up of journalists and opposition supporters were
registered in 10th polling district.