If the international actors turn a blind eye to it, naturally they are also open

Yesterday, the CEC rejected the joint demand of the opposition forces, depriving the PAP of the opportunity to be represented in the parliament. Today, Vahagn Hovakimyan responded to public, political and professional criticisms statement spread, noting: “The Central Electoral Commission should not automatically order a re-voting after declaring the results of voting in any precinct invalid.”

Human rights defender, lawyer Hovhannes Khudoyan does not consider this the official position of the CEC.

“This is the text written somewhere by Vahagn Hovakimyan on the CEC website – 168․amHovhannes Khudoyan mentioned in a conversation with , and then remarked, “With this statement, Vahagn Hovakimyan admits that the re-voting of these precincts could have affected the results of the elections, but he gave birth to a new idea that, since in this case people would go and participate in voting in a special way, already knowing the results, then they cannot allow it.”

But this interpretation nullifies the code’s regulation on re-voting. the basis of any re-voting is that it should affect the results, if it does not, there is no direct re-voting according to the law, and secondly, any re-voting takes place a week after the elections, that is, in any case, the general results of those elections are clear, and the voters can decide, go and vote for someone else, according to expediency.

In other words, he decided that according to the Electoral Code, when people once said that there can be a re-voting, it cannot be at all.”

The human rights defender noted that even in this case, the results of the elections should not have been summarized in this way. there should have been a national re-voting.

Since a number of political forces have announced that they will dispute these and other circumstances in the Constitutional Court, we asked Hovhannes Khudoyan whether we will not have the same picture in the Constitutional Court.

“Naturally, it is understandable that the composition of the CC is not particularly different from the composition of the CEC in terms of human and other qualities, but perhaps political expediency will require that we should apply once again to show that the election results are systematically falsified.”

Hovhannes Khudoyan answered our last question, whether the international structures will adequately respond to what is happening today, with the observation that it is the first case in the history of Armenia that the fraud of the elections can be justified by arithmetic calculation.

“Now, if the international actors turn a blind eye to it, naturally, they will be revealed as sponsors of electoral fraud,” he added.

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