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ELECTIONS CONDUCTED IN ARMENIA NEVER CORRESPONDED TO INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS - ARMENIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
TERT.AM
12:53 ~U 30.01.13
Election is not only the voting process and in case of Armenia it
has never been conducted in accordance with international standards,
chairman of Armenian Helsinki Committee Avetik Ishkhanyan (first
from left) said at the public hearing today dedicated to the upcoming
presidential election.
The discussion has been convened by Eastern Partnership civil
society forum~Rs Armenia~Rs National platform and Partnership for
Open Society initiative.
~SCompetition has always been during each presidential election
but every time after rigged elections the post-electoral situation
in Armenia was hard and rather dramatic,~T he said, stressing that
change of power in Armenia is being tied with a person.
The regular start to the situation with the upcoming presidential
election was given by the May 2012 parliamentary polls.
~SNow the Prosperous Armenia party considers itself an alternative
and till now I do not have any explanation to it and it just remains
to make conclusions why other three parliamentary forces except the
Republican party refused to participate in the presidential poll. It
is very strange,~T he said, adding that these elections differ from
previous one with the circumstance that we are going not to polls
but to voting.
TERT.AM
12:53 ~U 30.01.13
Election is not only the voting process and in case of Armenia it
has never been conducted in accordance with international standards,
chairman of Armenian Helsinki Committee Avetik Ishkhanyan (first
from left) said at the public hearing today dedicated to the upcoming
presidential election.
The discussion has been convened by Eastern Partnership civil
society forum~Rs Armenia~Rs National platform and Partnership for
Open Society initiative.
~SCompetition has always been during each presidential election
but every time after rigged elections the post-electoral situation
in Armenia was hard and rather dramatic,~T he said, stressing that
change of power in Armenia is being tied with a person.
The regular start to the situation with the upcoming presidential
election was given by the May 2012 parliamentary polls.
~SNow the Prosperous Armenia party considers itself an alternative
and till now I do not have any explanation to it and it just remains
to make conclusions why other three parliamentary forces except the
Republican party refused to participate in the presidential poll. It
is very strange,~T he said, adding that these elections differ from
previous one with the circumstance that we are going not to polls
but to voting.