New details have emerged in the ongoing session of the Constitutional Court in the case of disputing the results of the parliamentary elections held on June 7.

The Central Electoral Commission canceled the voting results of two precincts due to persistent time violations, and also clarified the numerical deviations recorded in some precincts.

Chairman of the CEC of Armenia during the June 29 court hearing Vahagn Hovakimyan confirmed before the high court that the voting process in polling stations No. 10/51 and 35/65 continued for an unprecedentedly long time after the official closing, reaching up to 3 hours and 38 minutes.

According to the chairman of the commission, the deviation of such volume is a significant violation, under the conditions of which it is impossible to restore the true will of the voters, which became the basis for invalidating the results of those precincts.

Responding reporting judge Edgar Shatiryan to the question why the superior body addressed the issue only days later, on June 11, when there were alarms in the press even on the day of the vote, Hovakimyan explained that the CEC initially waited for the official complaints of the political forces.

Since no demand was submitted by June 9, the commission intervened on its own initiative, based on public outcry and aiming to rule out overshadowing of the general election process.

Նիստի ընթացքում քննարկման առարկա դարձան նաև «Բարգավաճ Հայաստան» կուսակցության կողմից մատնանշված վիճակագրական անհամապատասխանությունները:

The head of the CEC assured that there was a purely mechanical error in data entry in the four polling stations.

According to him, those inaccuracies have already been eliminated in the presence of PAP authorized representatives, and now the published data fully correspond to the precinct protocols. The Constitutional Court should publish its final decision on applications challenging the election results no later than July 4.

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