Violent… These people simply do not care about the constitution and laws.

What the Central Electoral Commission did is simply mandate theft. About this 168 TVof Revue announced on the air of the program Elinar Vardanyan, the candidate of the National Assembly deputy on the pre-election list of the “Prosperous Armenia” party (PAP).commenting on the CEC’s decision to invalidate the results of the June 7 vote in three polling stations, due to which the PAP does not overcome the electoral threshold.

According to the member of the National Assembly, during the summarization of the preliminary results of the National Assembly election, fewer votes were counted in favor of the PAP than the party actually received as a result of the voters’ vote.

“If I say it in one word and try to express myself in an educated manner, it is simply absurd. What the Central Electoral Commission did is simply mandate theft. Look what happened. At the beginning, when the preliminary results were being summarized on the morning of June 8, it suddenly became clear that the “Prosperous Armenia” party did not cross the threshold of 4 percent. Then, when we investigated, we saw that even without recalculation, the numbers they entered did not match the extracts from the records we have. Of course, they say that it was a technical defect, but I have an inner belief that it was a deliberate step, so that they would not notice that four forces passed into the parliament at the stage of summarizing the preliminary results,” commented Elinar Vardanyan.

Elinar Vardanyan emphasizes that before the summary of the final results on June 14, the results of the recount were published, with which it was recorded that the PAP overcomes the electoral threshold of 4 percent, after which the voting results in three polling stations were declared invalid, which means that the invalidation of voting in those polling stations affects the results of the elections.

“When you put aside the votes of more than 2,000 citizens, those votes are the same for you – that’s one side of the issue, but on the other hand, it turns out that you are directly interfering with the results of the elections. We all saw that there were problems in those two polling stations, but what is the fault of the ordinary citizen who went to vote, that the CEC and electoral district commissions are not able to properly organize elections in their polling stations?

It turns out that the CEC decides whether my vote has value or not, and this is in the event that election violations occurred due to their fault, and here the requirement of the Election Code is definitely that a re-voting should be scheduled in case of invalid results in some polling stations. This is an imperative requirement. There can be no dilemma here,” emphasizes the deputy.

Elinar Vardanyan adds that according to the Electoral Code, if the above is not possible, then the entire election is declared invalid.

“And what did they do now – riot?” You can’t describe it any other way. You know, for these people, the constitution and laws have no meaning. These people simply don’t care about the constitution and laws,” the interlocutor adds.

Elinar Vardanyan also spoke about the fact that PAP, “Strong Armenia”, “Armenia” blocs, “Unity Wings” party intend to apply to the Constitutional Court with the demand to declare the election results invalid. According to Vardanyan, at the moment the PAP and other forces are preparing their applications to submit to the Constitutional Court.

Elinar Vardanyan does not have any expectations from the CC, but he believes that it is definitely necessary to apply to the CC in order to fix all the election violations that occurred during the entire election process with those applications.

“It should be emphasized that the election was not only the June 7 vote and it was not the counting of the voting results. The election is the whole process, and such a shameful election has never happened in the history of newly independent Armenia. These elections were organized exclusively within the framework of terror. First of all, in the pre-election phase, unequal conditions were created for the government and other political forces. What was allowed to the government, was not allowed to the opposition.

For what the opposition was subjected to criminal prosecution, in the same case, no proceedings were carried out against the ruling power. Threats, hate speech, criminal prosecutions, the use of administrative resources, along with scaring people – all this cannot have an impact on the entire electoral process,” Elinar Vardanyan adds.

Let’s remind that the Central Electoral Commission recognized the results of the June 7 vote as invalid in election precincts No. 12/13, 10/51, 36/65. As a result, PAP’s votes decreased, and the party did not overcome the electoral threshold of 4 percent. According to the final results summarized by the CEC, the PAP received 58,287 votes or 3.98 percent of the votes.

Full interview in the video.

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