52,85% of voters participated in Yerevan Council voting
31.05.2009 21:21 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 407 thousand 745 voters have participated in Yerevan
Council elections.
The total number of voters in Yerevan is 771,477. There were 6
political parties and 1 political bloc running for elections for 65
mandates.
Nagorno Karabakh refutes information about `two servicemen going
across to the Azeri side’
31.05.2009 23:55 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Defense army of NKR does not have information about
capture of two Armenian soldiers by armed services of Azerbaijan,
Senor Hasratyan, lieutenant colonel and head of the press office
department of the NKR Defense Army, told a PanArmenian.net
reporter. `On May 31 no servicemen were going across to the enemy
side, this a regular lie and misinformation, ‘ Mr.Asratyan said,
adding that on June 1 more complete information will be at his
disposal.
Azerbaijani Trend Agency disseminated information, that allegedly on
May 31 two Armenian soldiers on a voluntary basis went across to Azeri
side and were captured by Azerbaijan’s servicemen in a place called
Gulistan on the territory of Geranboy area.
RPA leading as of 00:00 a.m. according to preliminary data of RA CEC
01.06.2009 00:35 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to the first and initial data of the
Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Armenia, as of 00:00 a.m. the
Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) is leading. 16803 ballot papers have
been processed by now collected from 21 polling stations, 447 out of
them have been invalidated.
As RA CEC reports, votes have been distributed the following way: RPA
– 8079 votes, `Prosperous Armenia’ – 3482, Armenian National Congress
– 3236, ARF Dashnaktsutyun – 606, `Orinats Yerkir’ – 497, People’s
Party – 384, Armenian Labor Socialist Party – 70 votes.
ANC claims of numerous violations they managed to prevent
01.06.2009 01:00 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ ` Flagrant violations happening right now during the
process of vote counting proves only, that even after such wide-scale
falsifications authorities are still not confident, that the question
is ultimately determined for their benefit,’ Arman Musinyan,
press-secretary of ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, told journalists.
Arman Musinyan informed journalist about kidnapping of Anushvan
Nikoghosyan, member of divisional election committee from the
`Heritage’ party from the ¹ 5/15 polling station. According to Arman
Musinyan, `not elections but violation of elections’ took place at the
¹7 and ¹8 polling stations in Malatia – Sebastia community,
journalists from 4 Armenian newspapers, as well as an observer from
Transparency International, who tried to prevent falsifications, were
beaten.
Musinyan told journalists, that during press conference he received a
message about theft attempt of a ballot box from the 5/10 polling
station.
In respect to making protocols on violations during elections,
according to Arman Musinyan, there have been some impediments at
Malatia-Sebastia’s polling stations, but at other places authorized
representatives of the Armenian National Congress managed to prevent
and record in written form the overwhelming number of all violations,
Arman Musinyan said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
TATEV OHANIAN SAYS AS OF 14:00 THE CENTRAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION GOT NO
SERIOUS APPLICATION-COMPLAINTS
YEREVAN, MAY 31, ARMENPRESS: The elections of Council of Yerevan
Elders are passing in a natural order; the commissions provide the
natural course of the voting. Press secretary of Central Electoral
Commission Tatev Ohanian told Armenpress that as of 14:00 the CEC got
no serious application-complaints and no serious incidents have been
registered. People conducting observation mission in the elections
continue their activity in a natural course visiting different polling
stations. They have also registered no data on violations.
29 local and 1 international organizations with correspondingly
6000 and 15 observers follow the voting process.
THE CRIMINAL-EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT OF ARMENIAN MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
ENSURES THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ELECTORAL RIGHT OF THE IMPRISONED
PEOPLE
YEREVAN, MAY 31, ARMENPRESS: 463 from the 483 imprisoned people having
a right to take part in the elections of Council of Yerevan Elders
have refused from voting.
Press secretary of the Criminal-Executive Department of Armenian
Ministry of Justice Arsen Babayan told Armenpress that the
criminal-executive institutions have ensured the transportation of 20
imprisoned people to the polling stations established in the places of
their registration where they voted.
For the imprisoned person document which confirms his identity is
the passport or the card of first type. An imprisoned person presents
written application about participation or refusal to the head of the
institution which has authorities to keep under arrest.
ACCORDING TO THE RESULTS FROM 21 POLLING STATIONS REPUBLICAN PARTY OF
ARMENIA LEADER OF MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
YEREVAN, JUNE 1, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Central Electoral Commission
started summing up the results of municipal elections in Yerevan. As
of 23.45 pm May 31 results of elections in 21 polling stations out of
439 have been summed up where 16 803 voters participated in the
elections, the number of invalid bulletins reached 447.
According to the results, the majority of the voters backed
Armenian Republican Party 8 079, second comes `Prosperous Armenia’
with 3 482, Armenian National Congress received 3 236, ARF received
606 of the votes, Orinats Yerkir party 497, People’s party 384,
Armenian Labor-Socialist Party 70. The number of inaccuracies is 4.
According to the Armenian Electoral Code, the initial results will
be summed up not later than 24 hours after the voting.
According to the initial information, out of 771,477 eligible
voters 407,745 participated in the municipal elections in Yerevan, or
52.85 percent of the Yerevan residents.
Correspondent of ‘168 zham’ newspaper proves the information that
deputy Samvel Aleksanyan’s supporters did ballot-stuffing over voting
process
2009-05-31 20:31:00
ArmInfo. Correspondent of ‘168 zham’ newspaper Armine Avetyan told
Arminfo correspondent that deputy of the National Assembly Samvel
Aleksanyan’s supporters did ballot-stuffing over voting process at the
electoral constituency 8/05 at Malatia-Sebastia district.
She also added that Vardan Hovanissyan, having introduced himself as
Aleksanyan’s nephew, came up to her and offered to leave the ballot
station for half of an hour for him ‘to do his business’ and promised a
bribe for that. But the journalist categorically refused, as a result
of which 5-6 young man came up to her at 4:15 PM and forced to leave
the ballot station.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
The voting is over: All polling stations closed at 8 p.m.
31.05.2009 20:16
Lusine Vasilyan
`Radiolur’
All polling stations were closed at 8 p.m. sharp, and the voting for
the Yerevan City Coucnil is over. The electoral commissions are now
summing up the results.
The Central Electoral Commission provides information on voter turnout
every three hours and the final numbers are due at 9 p.m.
As of 5 p.m., 41.66% of the electorate participated in the elections.
This is not a bad result, but not the best, either. It yields to the
voter turnout at the last presidential elections, when the
participation reached 57.14% as of 5 p.m.
The greatest activeness was registered in Avan community. Almost 50% of
the voters participated in the elections by 5 p.m. The same
participation was registered in Shengavit. Erebuni and Arabkir
communities were the most passive.
Touching upon the election frauds, Secretary of the Central Electoral
Commission Abram Bakhchagulyan described those as supposed violations.
All the reports disseminated by electronic media were checked, he said.
Investigation revealed that part of them did not correspond to reality,
particularly with regard to stuffing and election bribes.
Abram Bakhchagulyan noted that progress was obvious as regards voting
lists. This time only 10 voters could not find their names in the list
and applied to the corresponding bodies to restore their voting rig
ht.
52.85% of the voters participated in the elections for the Yerevan City
Council
armradio.am
31.05.2009 21:36
407 745 citizens or 52.85% of the voters participated in the elections
for the Yerevan City Council, the Central Electoral Commission
reported. The picture of voter turnout in the 13 electoral districts is
as follows:
Electoral District 1 (Avan, Nor-Nork) ` 32 078 voters or 52.3%8;
Electoral District 2 (Nor Nork) ` 30 650 voters or 51.59%;
Electoral District 3 (Kanaker Zeitun, Nor Nork) ` 30 610 voters or
49.86%;
Electoral District 4 (Arabkir) ` 25 864 voters or 45.40%;
Electoral District 5 (Davitashen, Arabkir) ` 30 211 voters or 49.92%;
Electoral District 6 (Adjapnyak) ` 29 027 voters or 51.48%;
Electoral District 7 (Adjapnyak, Malatsia Sebastia) ` 38 407 voters or
67.49%;
Electoral District 8 (Malatsia Sebastia, Shengavit) ` 38 634 voters or
64.03%;
Electoral District 9 (Kentron, Adjapnyak) ` 27 220 voters or 51.63%;
Electoral District 10 (Kentron, Nork Marash) ` 26 563 voters or 47.49%;
Electoral District 11 (Shengavit, Erebuni) ` 34 698 voters or 56.24%;
Electoral District 12 (Shengavit, Erebuni) ` 34 180voters or 55.83%;
Electoral District 13 (Erebuni, Nubarashen) ` 29 603 voters or 44.35%.