Lawyer Tigran Yegoryan represented the appeal of Armenian National Congress-People’s Party of Armenia alliance. He brought manifold examples of election fraud, pursuant to which hairdressing, dental, transportation free services have been delivered, vote-buying has been in place, people have been guided not only by the representatives of the Republican Party of Armenia but the opposition as well. Particularly, violations by “Tsarukyan” alliance, Armenian Renaissance Party, ORO, “
Particularly, violations by “Tsarukyan” alliance, Armenian Renaissance Party, ORO, “Yelq”, even Communist Party of Armenia. With reference to this, we asked Congress-PPA Chief of Staff Levon Zurabyan what the fact that he referred to the violations by the opposition as well is conditioned by. He replied: “Is it me who has addressed it? Excuse me, Yegoryan represents the civil society as well. We have particularly mentioned it in our appeal. We allow the civil society to represent also the evidence they possess.”
We asked whether he did not have anything in relation to it, eventually, his appeal is represented in the Constitutional Court and the violations mentioned. Levon Zurabyan answered: “I personally find and we as a political force have always targeted the RPA. We think that this is the correct path. When lawyers enter the case, you cannot put political issues. People have evidence, represent them, we cannot edit them.”
Asked whether it was news to him that other forces do violations as well, he replied: “It was not news. But we do not think that it is politically right to represent other forces that are in that case, the offenses conducted by other forces.” Levon Zurabyan told, nevertheless, their appeal encompasses certain evidence that refers not only to RPA: “Actually, the owner of the system is RPA. RPA decides what parties to allow to distribute bribes. RPA decides the parliamentary seats. In 2012 they were not able to do that, for 7% they had to accept Congress’ presence in the parliament. They solved that issue now alike.”
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