Wednesday, April 11 2018 16:54

ArmInfo.The head of the Central Election Commission of Armenia Tigran Mukuchyan reported to the National Assembly for the work done by the CEC in 2017.

The report consists of 89 pages, which also reflects the process of  organizing and holding parliamentary elections, elections to the  Council of Elders of Yerevan, as well as local elections. According  to Mukuchyan, all these elections were organized in a transparent  manner, in accordance with the law and passed in a peaceful  atmosphere. What helped in many respects the video cameras installed  at the polling stations.

He said that about 29,000 local and foreign observers watched the  parliamentary elections in 2017, the candidates as a whole had about  23,000 proxies, and the electoral process was covered by 1,244 media  representatives. During the Yerevan elections, 1,600 trustees, 4,200  local and foreign observers were registered, followed by 654 media  representatives.

According to him, out of 309 candidates to the Council of Elders of  Yerevan, only 1 was registered, and out of 1,538 candidates for  deputies only 2 because of the inconsistency of the submitted  documents with the requirements of the law.

During the parliamentary elections, 4 statements were received on the  recount of votes in 12 polling stations, during the Yerevan  elections, 2 applications were received. Applications for the  annulment of election results were not received at all.

In the magazines of the district election commissions 562 records  were left during the parliamentary elections and 474 during the  Yerevan elections.

Mukuchyan noted that at the request of the new IC after the  elections, lists of voted citizens were made public. As the  electronic system showed, 76 thousand 324 citizens viewed these lists  after the election, 250 thousand pages were viewed as a whole. "I  should note that not a single complaint from citizens that someone  voted in their place was received by the CEC," Mukuchian said.

After the parliamentary elections, the CEC received 66 complaints, in  territorial election commissions 324 from three monitoring  organizations. During the Yerevan elections, the CEC received 5  complaints from 1 observer organization.

Mukuchian also stressed that the CEC and the authorized bodies  considered the media publications on violations as a statement, and  studied all these cases. Summing up, Mukuchian stressed that there  was not a single case of double voting during the elections, and  progress in organizing electoral processes in person.

Despite Mukuchyan's claims that the elections were unprecedented, the  deputies from Tsarukyan and Yelk Blocs considered that they did not  reflect the will of the people, since the rating system of voting  prevented this. "The rating system of voting, in fact, brought the  political struggle to a minimum, the struggle of money and resources  has developed, I propose to review and abolish this election system,"  Naira Zohrabyan, the bloc's secretary said.

And Secretary of the Yelk bloc Edmond Marukyan proposed to develop  mechanisms to prevent any possibility of distributing electoral  bribes. Otherwise, do not expect any changes.