CEC AGAIN REJECTS SUPREME COUNCIL DEPUTY CLUB’S APPLICATION ON CARRYING OUT OBSERVATION MISSION
Noyan Tapan
Feb 06 2007
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The application of accreditation
of Supreme Council Deputy Club NGO’s observers was rejected at the
February 6 sitting of RA Central Electoral Commission (CEC). In the
words of CEC Chairman Garegin Azarian, according to RA legislation,
NGOs must not have the same name with state bodies, which is, in this
case, Supreme Council. He reminded that CEC with the same motivation
had rejected the Deputy Club’s 2005 application on carrying out
observation mission at the referendum on constitutional amendments. CEC
turned down Commission member Felix Khachatrian’s proposal to invite
NGO’s Chairman Ruben Torosian to CEC and to listen to his opinion.
G.Azarian stated that currently they carry out huge work on arranging
electoral rolls. He said that they must not withdraw from electoral
rolls the names of the people being away from the country irrespective
of their number. As G.Azarian affirmed, they also must not change
electoral districts’ borders on the threshold of the elections. In
response, F.Khachatrian declared that "not to change an electoral
district made up wrongly is a political order."