From a legal point of view, the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia is obliged to appoint a re-voting in the two polling stations, the results of which were declared invalid. This is stated in the independent legal analysis published by Doctor of Legal Sciences Artur Ghambaryan.

The head of the Department of Legal Theory and Constitutional Law of the Armenian-Russian University initiated the preparation of the conclusion of the “Amicus Curiae” format in order to obtain an objective and political assessment of the situation surrounding the “Prosperous Armenia” party. The basis for the examination was the decision of the CEC, by which the results of precincts No. 10/51 of Nubarashen administrative district of Yerevan and No. 35/65 of Agarak community of Syunik marz were canceled.

As a result of invalidating the voting results, the political force lost a total of 213 votes. According to the legal analysis, this indicator is of crucial importance for the party to overcome the temporary threshold of four percent set by the law, which indicates the direct impact of the violations on the outcome of the elections.

The expert document emphasizes that the Electoral Code defines a clear mechanism.

The powers of the CEC are transformed into a direct obligation to appoint a re-voting in the presence of three conditions at the same time: the fact of violations, their impact on the results, and the possibility of correcting the situation by re-voting. Since the consequences of the recorded violations can be overcome by local re-voting in the mentioned two precincts, Professor Ghambaryan concludes that the Central Electoral Commission should officially record the need to hold new elections at the stage of summarizing the results.

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