Prosperous Armenia Party headquarters to file  petition for  vote  recount

ArmInfo.  The Prosperous Armenia Party campaign headquarters will file a petition for a vote recount and will use all legal means to seek to identify election violations, as noted in a statement by Iveta Tonoyan, press secretary  for Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik Tsarukyan.

"Since yesterday evening, we have been observing various arithmetic  manipulations regarding the votes cast for the Prosperous Armenia  Party. During the vote count, one figure was displayed on the CEC  website, but with each subsequent update, a different, reduced number  appeared.

The Prosperous Armenia party's campaign headquarters currently states  that it will file a petition for a vote recount, utilize all legal  means, and work to uncover electoral violations. The identification  of polling stations where a recount will be required is currently  being finalized, and the grounds for appealing individual decisions  and actions are being discussed.

Furthermore, the above in no way precludes appealing the election  results, given the massive scale of electoral violations we observed  throughout the entire election process," the statement reads.

It should be noted that following the Central Electoral Commission's  adjustment of the preliminary vote counts for the June 7  parliamentary elections, businessman Gagik Tsarukyan's Prosperous  Armenia Party lost its 4% margin of victory and will not enter the  new parliament. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's Civil Contract Party  received 49.825% of the vote, Samvel Karapetyan's Strong Armenia bloc  received 23.281%, and second President Robert Kocharyan's Armenia  bloc received 9.934%. Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia Party received  3.996%.