CEC about the “campaign” badge worn by Pashinyan

CEC reminded yesterday that pre-election campaigning is prohibited until 20:00 on the voting day.

“The RA Central Electoral Commission reminds the citizens involved in the electoral process: commission members, technical equipment specialists, proxies, mass media, observers, that pre-election campaigning is prohibited before 20:00 on the voting day. We urge you to be careful about clothing, so that it is not associated with the political forces participating in the elections. We also urge the voters to wear clothes that do not have a number comparable to the political forces registered in the elections“, the message said.

Today it became clear that the representatives and supporters of the ruling power are actively violating the requirement of the CEC, appearing at the polling stations wearing t-shirts, badges and other attributes associated with the CP.

168․amfrom the CEC privately inquired about the clothes of Nikol Pashinyan, the candidate for Prime Minister on the KP list who came to the polling station. Today, Nikol Pashinyan voted with his party’s electoral symbol, a yellow map badge.

Are you going to address Nikol Pashinyan’s clothes, which were directly associated with his political power, we asked CEC press spokesperson Seda Ghukasyan.

In response, he specifically noted: “The persons who have a certain status during the elections – proxy, mass media, observer, visitor – are obliged not to carry out propaganda in the precinct and not to wear a number or sign that does not cause any association. We addressed everyone with this appeal. including candidates and voters.

But we cannot interfere in the case of voters. we can intervene in the case of persons in our domain: mass media, observers, proxies. However, in the case of the voters, it is also desirable that no propaganda be carried out.”

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