Before the parliamentary election, the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), the Democratic Party of Armenia (DPA), the Armenian Communist Party (ACP) and the Rule of Law Party (RLP),
had signed an application to the NSS. “Attaching importance to ruling out voting instead of people absent from the Republic during the election and aiming at creating mechanisms of additional supervision, we apply to the NSS of the Republic of Armenia on behalf of the mentioned parties with the following suggestion to offer an opportunity to one member from each of the mentioned parties to use the SECT System (Border Management Information System) after May 6 and before the deadline for applying to the electoral commission to find the election results void, in order to check the system data of a certain person that has participated in the election, if in accordance with the law, an application has been made or will be made to find the results of the polling station, in which that citizen has participated in the voting, void,” read the letter. www.aravot.am inquired from Davit Harutyunyan, the head of the National Assembly legal and state issues committee, who initiated this proposal of participating in the election within the limits of civilized competition whether any party had seized that opportunity offered to it. Mr. Harutyunyan informed that no one had used it, although the representatives of all parties had received training. In response to a question of www.aravot.am how he would explain that, whether there was no need or perhaps parties failed to perform their supervising functions, our interlocutor said, “I think there was no need.”
We also inquired from Mr. Harutyunyan what results his initiative of ensuring civilized competition had yielded before and during the election. “I think that it played a certain role and we generally managed to ensure civilized competition. This was the first attempt, a new move has been made and I think it has yielded positive results, although not to the extent I expected it would,” said our interlocutor.
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Nelly GRIGORYAN
