Yerkir Tsirani Party reacted on CEC decision

ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
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Yerkir Tsirani Party reacted on CEC decision

Yerevan May 22

Mariana Mkrtchyan. Yerkir tsirani Party reacted on Central Electoral
Commission decision, which on May 21 rejected the complaint of the
Party to recognize the Elders to Yerevan Council elections invalid.

"It is not a secret to anyone that the Armenian Nation make ends meet
on its historical fatherland because of the dictatorship of the Head
of the Republican Party Serzh Sargsyan. The years of this dictatorship
are a catastrophe for the people. The catastrophe is the mass
corruption in all the layers of the society and the high treason. The
two electoral processes held in 2017, the parliamentarian elections
and the Yerevan Council elections demonstrated that from now on the
electoral processes in Armenia are to be coordinated by the RPA by the
systemized corruption. Nowadays, the problems and the threats created
by the corruption destruct the yet not formed democratic institutions
in Armenia, moral values and the justice. The most cynic evidence of
the corruption is the trade of the own land of Artsakh by RPA and
Serzh Sargsyan and the system of state security of Armenia", Yerkir
Tsirani leader Zaruhi Postanjyan's statement reads.

At the same time, it is emphasized in the statement that the law
enforcement bodies of Armenia and CEC are the coverers of the
electoral corruption. "The property of the Yerevan Mayor Taron
Margaryan from RPA is the evidence of that corruption mechanism.
During the elections to the Yerevan Council of Elders, staff members
of Taron Margaryan's headquarters, together with police officers,
organized mass electoral fraud. A quarter of a century the results of
all elections were republicwide and referendums were falsified. In
Armenia, legitimate power was not formed. Today, political apathy has
formed in the Armenian society, and the dictatorial regime in the
person of the RPA and Sargsyan show exceptional cynicism. Continuation
of this situation can lead to civil unrest and riot. During the past
week, we twice witnessed the manifestation of cynicism on the part of
the RPA and Serzh Sargsyan, when an attempt was made to conceal
massive falsifications during the elections to the Yerevan Council of
Elders, and during Sargsyan's address to parties and blocs from the
rostrum of the country's parliament, in which he announced forthcoming
programs of the dictatorial regime".

At the same time, "Yerkir Tsirani" emphasizes that during the
elections to the Council of Elders of Yerevan, many violations and
falsifications were recorded, in addition, police officers used
violence against the party leader Zaruhi Postanjyan and her daughter
Lilit Drumpyan, as a result of which they were hospitalized. The party
notes that the law enforcement bodies of Armenia, instead of properly
investigating the incident, distributed a statement in which they
emphasized the legitimacy of the actions of the police.

To note, on May 21, the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia
rejected the application- complaint of the Yerkir Tsirani party to
declare invalid the results of the elections to the Council of Elders
of Yerevan. It is noteworthy that the authorized representative of the
party Armen Gabrielyan did not attend the discussions. As the leader
of the Party Zaruhi Postanjyan stated, Gabrielyan was not informed
properly about the meeting because of that he could not attend, as he
was at that time in Gyumri. In his turn, the CEC Chairman Tigran
Mukuchyan assured that all were informed about the meeting properly.
Mukuchyan said that the Yerkir party did not submit the complaint
application, and therefore it will be rejected. According to the CEC,
the application has no legal justifications.

To recall, on May 14 elections were held in the capital's Council of
Elders. According to the results of the elections, the Republican
Party of Armenia received 71, 25% of the votes, the "Yelq" bloc - 21%,
the "Yerkir Tsirani" party - 7.75%. The Republican Party of Armenia
will receive 46 mandates, the bloc "Yelq" - 14, the party "Yerkir
Tsirani" - 5.