CEC of Armenia: About 460 million drams to be spent on ballots

ArmInfo.  About 460 million drams  will be spent on printing ballots.  Head of the Central Election  Commission of Armenia Tigran Mukuchyan stated this on July 4 in an  interview with journalists.

According to him, it is planned to print about 70 million ballots due  to the large number of political forces that have expressed a desire  to take part in the elections. At the same time, he assured that at  the end of the elections they will present the costs in detail.  Mukuchyan added that about 80% of all costs are spent on salaries.

When asked to assess the activity of electoral processes, Mukuchyan  recalled that a lot of political forces showed interest in the  upcoming June 20 elections, the Central Election Commission of  Armenia registered 26 electoral competitors - 22 parties and 4 blocs  of parties that will take part in the elections.

"In a number of cases, in connection with individual candidates,  decisions were made to refuse registration, since they did not submit  the relevant documents," the head of the CEC said.

Referring to the issue of registration of candidate for MP Mihran  Poghosyan, included in the list of the "I have the honor" bloc, and  the information that the latter had submitted a fake document, the  head of the CEC noted:  <As for individual cases, when the factual  grounds for each of them are identified, the CEC will organize  discussions and appropriate decisions will be made. Everything will  happen at our meetings, openly and publicly>.

In this vein, he once again recalled that candidates and political  forces can submit applications for self- rejection by June 10.  According to Mukuchyan, there are already separate applications for  self-withdrawal from different lists.

Speaking about the election campaign, he recalled that the campaign  will last only 12 days, in case of any violations of the rules by the  forces participating in the elections, the Central Election  Commission shouldreact very quickly and promptly, especially in terms  of prevention. "We will appeal to all parties, because we believe  that the campaign should be organized and carried out in the area of  good manners," Mukuchyan said.