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On June 9, our “Pashinyan broke his revolutionary promise: the armed forces should not be a political factor. In the footsteps of electoral processes” with the caption in the article we also referred to the participation of the army in the last NA elections as a political factor and the episodes of taking the soldiers to the precincts after 20:00 on the voting day.

We did not ignore CEC President Vahagn Hovakimyan’s operative regarding the opinion that military personnel will be brought to the polling stations after 20:00 on June 7. the claim or that nothing illegal happened.

“Before 20:00 in the evening, the soldiers were in front of the door of the polling station, waiting for their turn, and here a problem arose: either close the door of the polling station for the soldiers and not let them in so that they could exercise their right to vote, or let them in.” on June 8 in a conversation with journalists, he elaborated, stressing that those soldiers have been waiting in front of the polling stations for a long time and could not simply enter due to the queues at the polling station, and that such a problem occurred in only 2 polling stations.

On June 9 Edward Asryan, head of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces, was also in the conversation with the journalists to assure that the soldiers voted within the law. In other words, according to the requirements of the Electoral Code, “it doesn’t matter if he is a soldier or an ordinary citizen, he is in the territory of the electoral district, he is allowed to continue his constitutional duty.”

“Our servicemen were in the territory of the polling station at the appointed time, that is, no serviceman came to the polling station late.” Asryan emphasized.

In response to the objection that there is a precinct where the soldiers entered after 20:00, the head of the General Election Commission urged to address the remaining questions to the Central Electoral Commission and other related bodies.

And one more on June 11 The CEC convenes an extraordinary session and declares the decision invalid 35/65 (Syunik, Agarak) and 10/51 Voting results of (Nubarashen) precincts.

“The commission recognized as invalid the results of the voting in the electoral precinct No. 10/51 formed in the service area of ​​the electoral district electoral commission No. 10 and the results of the voting in the electoral district No. 35/65 organized in the service area of ​​the electoral district electoral commission No. 35 for the purpose of organizing and holding the regular elections of the National Assembly on June 7, 2026.

The commission decided to record the number of voting participants in precinct No. 10/51, 1287, as the sum of inaccuracies in precinct No. 10/51.

The number of voters in precinct No. 35/65: 1315 (one thousand three hundred and fifteen) was recorded as the total number of inaccuracies in Precinct No. 35/65.

The other results (numbers) of the protocols of election precincts No. 10/51 and No. 35/65, except for the amount of inaccuracies, were recorded as 0 (zero).

The materials of election precincts No. 10/51 and No. 35/65 have been sent to the prosecutor’s office,” it was noted at the extraordinary session of the CEC. protocol in

At the same time, CP deputy Vahagn Aleksanyan posted on his Facebook page note: does, noting:

“As a result of the hysteria raised by the opposition due to the soldiers’ vote, the results of 2 precincts are canceled. in which CP had a total of 1224 votes.

Any time this opposition utters the words “army” or “soldier” in the next five years, they must remember that they generated a process to invalidate the vote of the soldiers who got off the shift and voted.”

After this post, the deputies of the government put up appropriate “screens” from the representatives of the opposition forces, related to the soldiers’ vote.

Meanwhile, the opposition forces claim that all this is being done in order to steal the votes of the PAP and not leave it to the parliament. Maybe. In this case, the problem is not this, but that authorities can invalidate what they thought was legal within 2-3 days.

That is, when media was video publish that the soldiers were not in the precinct as of 20:00, but entered the precinct after 20:00, when the Eyewitness observation mission reported that about 480 soldiers were allowed to vote after 20:00, the authorities claimed that there was nothing illegal.

And after a few more days, it is decided to invalidate the results of the soldiers’ voting in the above-mentioned precincts and “throw” the blame for it in the pocket of the opposition.

If everything was legal, if the late entry of soldiers to the precinct, or the accumulation had objective reasons, as was presented a few days ago, although the shift could have been properly organized, then why is the army once again made a part of the political game and their votes are invalidated?

Is it justified to meet the dissatisfaction of the opposition when there is a problem of the reputation of the army, of course not. In other words, for the second time we are witnessing a disrespectful attitude towards the army in a short time.

If the government had to do this, why wasn’t it done immediately, why didn’t they demand responsibility from the relevant command? We think everything is obvious.

By the way, let’s mention that in one of Sotk’s precincts, it is also related to soldiers a shameful picture was presented, but there is no question about this, they did not manage to choose the soldiers who were brought to the precinct on the voting day. And? 35/65 (Syunik, Agarak) and 10/51 In the (Nubarashen) precincts, there should essentially be a re-vote and the soldiers should be decommissioned and taken to the polls again, perhaps at a time limit that has already been set.

To what extent some opposition forces have the right to name the army and the soldiers or not, it will still be discussed, maybe some of them don’t. But there are many episodes and cases that the government has deprived itself of its moral right for a long time.

The army and the soldier should first of all be considered as an important factor in ensuring the security of the country, and not become participants in petty political games, even if the problem, as it is presented, is to meet the dissatisfaction of the opposition, if everything does not lead to that.

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