Yerevan police receive 5 reports of violations during elections

The Independent Observer public organization sent five reports of crimes related to violations during the election campaign in Yerevan to law enforcement agencies, Report informs via Sputnik-Armenia.

One of the violations concerns the candidate from the ruling Civil Contract party Tigran Avinyan. It is about information that has spread, according to which students of the Polytechnic University were promised to delete absence marks if they went to a meeting with Avinyan. As the organization noted, this is not an election bribe, but an election crime.

In addition, the Independent Observer stated that during the election campaign (as of September 6), the activities of the Civil Contract party were covered on Public Television on average about 2 times more than others.

According to the Independent Observer, during the pre-election period, there were no cases of bribery of voters, but there were cases when voters were promised to be provided with certain goods and services. In particular, the Civil Contract, Strength of the Fatherland parties and the Mother Armenia bloc were involved in this.

As for the free expression of the will of voters, the organization has recorded cases of abuse of administrative resources at pre-election meetings of the Civil Contract.

Already on voting day, the organization conducted monitoring at 468 of 475 polling stations in Yerevan. Crowds of people, the presence of persons who did not have the right to be in the voting room, cases of non-compliance with the secrecy of voting, disputes, etc. were recorded.

On September 17, elections to the Council of the Elders were held in Yerevan. Thirteen parties and one bloc took part in the election. According to preliminary data from the Central Election Commission of Armenia, five political forces entered the Council of the Elders: the parties Civil Contract (32.57%), National Progress (18.89%), Public Voice (9.68%), Republic (11.32%), as well as the Mother Armenia bloc (15.43%).