Tsarukyan’s party to request recount

The Prosperous Armenia Party has announced that it will request the Central Electoral Commission to conduct a recount of the parliamentary election votes.

Iveta Tonoyan, the party’s spokesperson, said in a statement on social media that their party’s vote counts were allegedly decreasing with each real-time update issued by the electoral commission during the preliminary vote count.

She alleged that electoral violations have taken place on a “massive scale.”

“At this moment, the campaign headquarters of the Prosperous Armenia Party announces that it will request a recount, use all legal tools, and pursue the uncovering of electoral violations. The polling stations requiring a recount are currently being finalized, and the grounds for appealing certain decisions and actions are being discussed. Moreover, this does not preclude the possibility of disputing the election results, given the massive scale of violations witnessed throughout the entire electoral process,” Tonoyan said.

Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission, Vahagn Hovakimyan, earlier announced the updated preliminary results of the vote count in the June 7 parliamentary elections held in Armenia.

The results from all 2,005 polling stations have been tallied, with a turnout of 1,477,736 (nearly 59 percent).

The votes received by the four leading political forces are as follows:

Civil Contract Party – 727,160 votes, or 49.825%

Strong Armenia Alliance – 340,088 votes, or 23.281%

Armenia Alliance – 145,113 votes, or 9.934%

Prosperous Armenia Party – 58,378 votes, or 3.996%

Earlier results released by the electoral commission showed Gagik Tsarukyan’s Prosperous Armenia having garnered exactly 4%, the minimum threshold required to enter parliament. However, the updated data now shows Prosperous Armenia falling below the threshold. Hovakimyan emphasized that these figures are preliminary and that a phase of verification and recounting is still ahead.