Due to the "technical error", the chapter on violations in the  parliamentary elections of 2017 "dropped out" from the report on the  activities of the Ombudsman`s office of Armenia

ArmInfo. Due to the "technical  error", the full text of the report on the activity of the  Ombudsman's office for 2017 was not sent to the National Assembly of  Armenia. This is stated in the message of the Office of the Human  Rights Defender, which arrived in ArmInfo.

From the Ombudsman's report, by the strange coincidence of  circumstances, it was the head that spoke about violations during the  parliamentary elections in 2017: the mass distribution of bribes,  cases of violence, the total use of administrative resources by the  ruling party, and obstruction of the work of the media. The report  notes that these phenomena had a negative impact on public confidence  in the electoral processes, creating the impression of impunity  prevailing in the country.

The "technical mistake", that is, the absence of this chapter in the  report, was noticed and eliminated by the Ombudsman's office only  after numerous publications of the media, who, after revealing this  fact, rushed to classify the human rights defender as a "midfielder"  or "Republican Party Ombudsman".

The Ombudsman's office has already sent the final version of the  document to the National Assembly, which will be considered during  the forthcoming four-year mission.