“Show must go on,” Armen Martirosyan, the deputy leader of the Heritage party, recalled Freddie Mercury’s famous song during a conversation with www.aravot.am, while assessing the fact that as a result of examination of the documents and the ballot sack at no. 17/05 polling place in the region of Ararat carried out by the Special Investigative Service (SIS) yesterday, it turned out that in the sack with ballots cast for R. Hovhannisyan, a candidate for president, there were 432 ballots, 421 of which were cast for R. Hovhannisyan. In particular, according to the results of the examination, 5 ballots cast for Serzh Sargsyan, a candidate for president, 1 ballot cast for Andrias Ghukasyan, a candidate for president, were also among the ballots cast for R. Hovhannisyan, and 5 ballots were found spoiled, since the vote was not taken in accordance with the procedure. While answering our questions regarding this fact, Mr. Martirosyan stressed questions whether only that incident was recorded and whether there had not been ballots cast for other candidates in the sack with ballots cast for Serzh Sargsyan.
Let us note that no official information about this has been spread yet. As it has been informed, the SIS has been examining the ballots cast for Serzh Sargsyan since yesterday. With regard to this fact, A. Martirosyan mocked: “It turns out that there were so many violations among Serzh Sargsyan’s votes that they are still counting.” Commenting on this situation, Mr. Martirosyan stated: “All this proves once again that everything happened at that polling place, except for voting.” Let us remind that when the Heritage Party demanded that the ballot sacks at some polling places be opened, they had fears that because of delaying it for such a long time, they might arrange the sacks in advance. Therefore, we inquired of A. Martirosyan whether this fear might prove to be accurate. He replied: “Everything is possible in the Republic of Armenia. For example, there is an article on www.aravot.am, in which an old man said in Artik that he had been given 5000 drams to vote for Serzh Sargsyan, but he had voted for Raffi Hovhannisyan.”
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
