Wednesday, March 29 2017 14:17

ArmInfo. The Central Electoral Commission should  have a more serious approach in respect to any law violations during the electoral campaign. This was stated by  varouzhan Oktanyan, the Transparency International anti corruption   Yerevan branch Head. 

Following Oktanyan, he cannot understand  the CEC decision to reject  the complaint of Ohanyan-Raffi- Oskanyan bloc regarding the  cancellation of Republican party registration due to its use of  administrative resource, which is proven by the sound recordings of  phone conversations with 114 educational entities heads published  by  the Informed Citizens Union. " The CEC states that the leaders of  those entities have performed the agitation not during their working  hours. But is  pretty unclear what is the basis for such statements  of CEC. Besides if the employees of the hierarchy mentioned were  involved, that is already a use of administrative resource," Oktanyan  emphazised.  

Oktanyan added also that  law enforcement entities are not active in  the issues of discovering and investigating of law violations. He  mentioned that as of March 22, a special group of Prosecutor  General's office received 176 signals, 38 of which contained crime  elements, but the investigation is in progress only in respect to 3  cases of mentioned above. " this states the absence of a serious  approach, and very often the law enforcement entities serve not to  the country but to authorities," he mentioned. 

Tigran Mukuchyan, the CEC Head, clarifying the decision made,  accentuated that people   developing lists with schools and  kindergarten directors included, came along on behalf  on  non'-existing persons."Developing the lists of  followers and people,  who are ready to vote for the Party, is not a pre electoral agitation  by itself -  according to the  Electoral Code of RA. The records  published could not be treated as a violation of  the pre electoral  agitation procedure set by Electoral Code," he mentioned.