Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
May 13 2007
Armenian CEC summed up the preliminary results of elections;
opposition representatives refused to sign the protocol
Yerevan, May 13. /Mediamax/. The Central Electoral Commission of
Armenia summed up today the preliminary results of the parliamentary
elections under the proportional representation system, according to
which, 5 parties overcame the 5% barrier.
Mediamax reports that the members of CEC Feliks Khachatrian, Sona
Sarkisian and Zaven Pluzian, who represent, correspondingly,
`Justice’ bloc, `Orinats Yerkir’ and `National Unification’ parties,
refused to sign the final protocol.
They all argued their stance by the statement that `on May 12, there
were mass violations’.
The Republican Party of Armenia – 457.032 votes (32.8 %), the
`Prosperous Armenia’ party – 204.443 votes (14.7 %), the
`Dashnaktsutiun’ party – 177.192 votes (12.7 %), the `Orinats Yerkir’
party – 95.256 votes (6.8 %) and the `Heritage’ party – 80.890 votes
(5.8 %) overcame the 5% barrier.
All in all 1.389.521 electors participated in the election.–0–