Law-enforcement bodies reveal the number of election breaches
02.04.2017,
23:15
Armenian police said today it had received 176 reports as of 8 pm of alleged electoral abuses during today’s parliamentary elections, of which 32 were sent for investigation and another 121 were being verified.
YEREVAN, April 2. /ARKA. Armenian police said today it had received 176 reports as of 8 pm of alleged electoral abuses during today’s parliamentary elections, of which 32 were sent for investigation and another 121 were being verified.
The Investigation Committee of Armenia said it had received 98 reports as of 9 pm containing signs of violations of the electoral law. At the same time, a working group of the Prosecutor General's Office examined 1,594 reports of electoral violations as of 9 pm, of which 254 carried obvious signs of crime.
Out of 254 reports, 87 were about voting instead of another citizen or a repeat voting; another 74 reports were about impeding the right of citizens to freely express their suffrage, 45 were about violation of the secrecy of ballot, 38 were about obstructing the work media, proxies, observers, commission staff and another 10 reports were about electoral bribes.
The vast majority of violations – 1,340- were about technical problems during the voting process - the furnishing of polling stations, the operation of equipment, the emergence of queues at polling stations, the location of voting booths, the failure of video devices, and other technical problems that do not contain signs of breaches of the election law.
According to an exit poll, conducted by BC/The Gallup Organization the governing Republican Party of Armenia received 46% of votes, the Tsarukyan block - 25%, the Yelk bloc - 10% and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation/ Dashnaktsutyun - 5%. These are the first elections under an amended Constitution providing for the transition from a semi-presidential form of government to a parliamentary one. -0-
The Investigation Committee of Armenia said it had received 98 reports as of 9 pm containing signs of violations of the electoral law. At the same time, a working group of the Prosecutor General's Office examined 1,594 reports of electoral violations as of 9 pm, of which 254 carried obvious signs of crime.
Out of 254 reports, 87 were about voting instead of another citizen or a repeat voting; another 74 reports were about impeding the right of citizens to freely express their suffrage, 45 were about violation of the secrecy of ballot, 38 were about obstructing the work media, proxies, observers, commission staff and another 10 reports were about electoral bribes.
The vast majority of violations – 1,340- were about technical problems during the voting process - the furnishing of polling stations, the operation of equipment, the emergence of queues at polling stations, the location of voting booths, the failure of video devices, and other technical problems that do not contain signs of breaches of the election law.
According to an exit poll, conducted by BC/The Gallup Organization the governing Republican Party of Armenia received 46% of votes, the Tsarukyan block - 25%, the Yelk bloc - 10% and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation/ Dashnaktsutyun - 5%. These are the first elections under an amended Constitution providing for the transition from a semi-presidential form of government to a parliamentary one. -0-
