DISTRICT ELECTION COMMISSION NO 10 MAKES DECISION ON ARA SIMONIAN ELECTED AS DEPUTY OF RA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Noyan Tapan
Jan 18, 2010
YEREVAN, JANUARY 18, NOYAN TAPAN. After discussing the complaints
about the January 10 by-election of a National Assembly deputy by the
majoritarian electoral system, the district election commission (DEC)
No 10 in Yerevan on January 14 declared the results of the vote at
polling stations 10/15 and 10/19 invalid. In particular, the vote at
polling station 10/19 had been interrupted for some time, with doors
being closed to voters. The materials on these polling stations will
be sent to the RA prosecutor general’s office.
As NT correspondent was informed by chairwoman of DEC 10 Silva
Markosian, the votes received by the candidates at the indicated
two polling stations were nullified, and the number of the vote
participants was considered as an inaccuracy.
The results of the re-count of the votes are as follows: the member of
National Unity Party Ara Simonian received 6,850 votes; non-party man,
editor-in-chief of Armenian Times daily Nikol Pashinian received 4,650
votes; the chairman of the Marxist Party of Armenia David Hakobian
received 288 votes. 13,380 voters out of the 55,810 eligible voters
of the electoral district No 10 participated in the vote. The number
of inaccuracies is 1,200.
Based on the by-election results, DEC No 10 made a decision about
Ara Simonian being elected as a deputy of the RA NA from electoral
district No 10 by the majoritarian electoral system. 7 members of
the DEC signed the DEC’s protocol on the vote results. The commission
member representing the ARFD declined to sign the protocol.
S. Markosian said that in making its decision, the DEC also took
into account the RA Central Election Commission’s official letter,
according to which there are no unexamined and unanswered applications
regarding the by-election held in electoral district 10.