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    ACCORDING TO COUNCIL OF EUROPE MONITORING MISSION, YEREVAN COUNCIL OF ELDERS ELECTIONS WERE HELD AT SATISFACTORY LEVEL, BUT WITH SOME SHORTCOMINGS

    Noyan Tapan
    June 1, 2009

    YEREVAN, JUNE 1, NOYAN TAPAN. The monitoring mission of Council of
    Europe Congress of Local and Territorial Authorities states that the
    general organization level of Yerevan Council of Elders elections
    corresponded to European standards. As monitoring group head Nigel
    Mermagen stated at the June 1 press conference, their mission welcomes
    the Yerevan Council of Elders first elections that were held at a
    satisfactory level, but with some shortcomings. N. Mermagen added
    that a progress was recorded in the May 31 elections as compared with
    the 2008 presidential elections. "However, democracy is not only
    limited to elections: there should be an electoral culture in the
    country. Elections should be simple and pure outside polling stations,
    as well," he said.

    Though journalists asked for several times concretely what shortcomings
    and omissions the European observers had recorded, N. Mermagen did not
    mention them. According to him, those shortcomings will be presented
    in their final report to be published in October.

    In response to the questions of why observers disregard the fact of
    beating many journalists on the day of elections and why when visiting
    polling stations observers only spoke with power representatives
    N. Mermagen said that he was sorry that journalists formed such
    an impression.
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