Today observers and representatives of the Europe in Law Association NGO drew attention of the Central Election Commission (CEC) to an interesting fact. According to Lusine Hakobyan, a representative of the NGO, the commission of no. 17 electoral district examined the electoral fraud they had recorded very quickly; he had examined two voluminous records in three minutes. Tsovinar Nazaryan, an observer of the NGO, complained today that Armen Margaryan, the chairman of the commission, in particular, had impeded her work. As we have already informed, today the CEC examined the complaint of the Europe in Law Association NGO about the decision of the commission of no. 17 electoral district to reject their complaint and also rejected it. www.aravot.am inquired of Armen Margaryan, the chairman of no. 17 electoral district commission, how they had managed to examine the voluminous records of fraud mentioned by the observers in three minutes. “I gave the answer in my decision. The observers are too much interested. I don’t want to talk to a monitoring mission that calls people who turn
out at an electoral district ‘sheep.’ If observers call people ‘sheep,’ then they mix up the duration. The examination of the first issue lasted 17 minutes…, then we examined the other issues; aren’t they satisfied?” Mr. Margaryan said, assuring that the work of the observers hadn’t been impeded. Let us remind that today Tigran Mukuchyan, the chairman of the CEC, picked out a fragment among the videos put forward by the Europe in Law Association NGO, in which an observer of the same NGO, as Mr. Mukuchyan also confirmed, had compared voters with sheep, while talking on the phone.
