The guest of 168TV’s “Zara has a question” program is lawyer, human rights defender Hovhannes Khudoyan.

Below are some of the theses voiced by Hovhannes Khudoyan during the conversation․

• A very clear requirement of the law stipulates that if, as a result of invalidating the results of any electoral district, after the total votes are counted, it will become clear that the votes of that district can have an impact on the results, then there should be a re-voting.

• We have seen many election violations, starting from the beginning of pre-election campaigning to various anomalies during the counting process. Also, we do not see proper communication by the CEC with the public.

• As for the applications to the Constitutional Court, I know that the applications are being prepared for the “Armenia” bloc, and I am helping to prepare such an application. Usually, the Constitutional Court requires mathematical precision in these matters. For example, even if we admit that the most surprising violations occurred in 10 precincts, they can be a basis for canceling the general elections if they were of national significance, that is, they had a quantitative impact. Now, in the example of the PAP, this is very clearly and formulaically confirmed. And if they commit illegality and re-voting is not scheduled in those precincts, this will definitely have grounds to satisfy the complaint in the Constitutional Court with simple arithmetic accuracy.

• There will be a political desire to destroy everything and make people look like fools to move forward, but no one, and also in front of the international community, can never explain where those 200 votes went.
• There are separate reports of international observers, which talk about many targeted violations, both in terms of abuse of administrative resources and the use of criminal legal instruments. More neutral reports or positive reports are about election day voting procedures because those last day actions, even if flawed, are very easily correctable; everything is recorded, all kinds of mistakes are recorded, and all guilty persons can be held accountable. Much more profound are all the violations that have a very intense intervention during the pre-election and pre-election campaign stage, but you cannot make them clearly measurable. For example, we have repeatedly talked about the involvement of law enforcement agencies in political propaganda.

• We see double standards. when in the case of an action, criminal prosecution is initiated against the oppositionist, but when the same action or a more striking action is performed by the representative of the government, criminal proceedings are refused. For example, the mayor of Tallinn donates money from the municipal budget during the election campaign period. They say that there is no problem, when a representative of some other force is engaged in charity, they say that there is a legal requirement. And these episodes are many, if the law enforcement agencies spend their operational resources to intercept the opposition parties, to get information, we do not see that they are eavesdropping on the same theory, following government representatives, and there are many such data.

• Under the authority of the head of the communal department of one of the regional communities of the region, the workers are taken and registered in one of the remote villages, where he is the chairman of the commission, is this organic or not organic?

• In the case where I strongly believe that if they do not commit a very obvious illegality, and the PAP passes the parliament anyway, and thereby deprives the CP of the 3/5 majority, causing very serious political problems for them, in this case the answer is unequivocally yes, the mandates should be taken. If they also violate this, I cannot give an unequivocal answer, although my personal opinion, all the same, is inclined to the idea of ​​taking a mandate, not because it is pleasant to go to the parliament to engage in various dialogues, fight, get hit, etc., but because having a faction in the National Assembly gives rights, even if the use of a part of them will make the struggle much easier than without them.

• At least for a literate person, it should be obvious that all these actions are the result of a political directive.

Details in the video.

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