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    CIS MONITORING MISSION CALLS ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL POLLS LEGITIMATE

    Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
    Feb 19 2013

    Executive Secretary of the CIS monitoring mission Sergey Lebedev
    said today that the presidential polls in Armenia were free, open,
    competitive and met demands of the international norms. No facts
    casting doubts in legitimacy of the elections have been registered,
    although minor violations happened, the official says, NEWS.am reports.

    The CIS monitoring mission consisted of 212 officials from 8 states.

    They visited over 1000 polling stations on February 18.

    Head of the OSCE PA monitoring mission Tonino Picula said that
    the elections lacked competitiveness. There was no separation of
    political activists of the incumbent president and officials of state
    structures. This means that administrative resources and pressure
    on functionaries were used to involve them in voting and agitation,
    News Armenia reports.

    Agitation was well-organized, but the decision of some parties to
    abstain from running for president provoked empathy among voters.

    The International Expert Center for Electoral Systems (ICES) calls
    the elections legitimate. Alexander Zinker, ICES president and MP of
    the 15th calling, called the elections legitimate, democratic and said
    that they met the international norms. The problems he pointed out were
    power cuts, high density of people at some polling stations, lack of
    authorized officials of candidates and reports about disappearances
    of marks in passports 2 hours after voting.

    35 independent experts of the EU, US and Israel were monitoring the
    elections within the framework of the ICES. The mission monitored
    134 polling stations and gave a positive rating to work at 65% of them.

    Not a single polling station got a negative rating.

    Lidia Lawson, President of the Independent US Center for Political
    Monitoring, emphasized the high grade of readiness of electoral
    commissions. Vote-counting was tranquil and without incidents.

    Electoral Commission checked vote results of 1988 polling stations
    and says that President Serzh Sargsyan got 58.64% (861,378) votes,
    followed by Raffi Ovannisyan, leader of the Heritage Party and
    ex-Foreign Minister of Armenia, with 36.74% (539,674) votes.

    Former Prime Minister Grant Bagratyan got 2.15% (31,643) of votes,
    leader of the Union for National Self-Determination Paruyr Ayrikyan
    got 1.23% (18,093), head of Radio Hay Andrias Gukasyan got 0.57%
    (8,328), epos researcher Vardan Sedrakyan got 0.42% (6,203) and former
    Foreign Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Arman Melikyan 0.24% (3,520).

    http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/37207.html




    From: A. Papazian
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