Election violations were outrageous

The calculation of the election results of NA deputy in N10 polling station ended. Central Election Committee of Armenia has published election results; according to preliminary data Nikole Pashinyan received 5023 votes, Davit Hakobyan 266, and Ara Simonyan 7622 votes. The number of the voters according to the signatures is 13 380, 438 ballots were recognized invalid.

During the election Nikole Pashinyan's headquarters reported about violations. Extraordinary situation appeared to be in 10/19 polling station. The door of the polling station was closed and the voters were not allowed to enter. Two observers noted that the number of the voters registered by them differed from the number recorded by the committee members by 100. By beating Davit Hakobyan's proxy and journalist Hayk Gevorgyan were taken out from the polling station. After that the polling station was closed for some time.

Arman Mousinyan, the speaker of Armenian National Congress, announced that violations in some of the polling stations were outrageous, what refers to 10/19 polling station "it was closed, voters' list, register journal were stolen, the polling station was closed for quite a long period, according to the information received by us for about 40-50 minutes, and maybe for 1 hour, some election documents disappeared".

Elections committee members of electoral district came to the polling station, but at first they were not allowed to enter, then they were able to enter the polling station.
To the question on whether the elections can be announced invalid and new elections can be announced on the basis of the violations reported by Nikole Pashinyan's headquarters, as well as by the journalist, the president of the elections committee of the electoral district Silva Markosyan replied, "Up to now it has not be known a violation that can impact the result of the election, but there is a polling station that was closed for some time, committee members, observers, proxies quarreled. It is not clear for us, though I have visited their polling station, but anyways it was not clear what had happened, but the polling station was closed".

The candidates can submit their complaints demanding re-calculation from Monday noon till 14:00 o'clock.

Ara Simonyan's headquarters have not spoken about violations.

The other candidate Davit Hakobyan has announced
"I demand new Constitution and a new electoral right, and this election must be considered invalid, it must be considered invalid by any means, nation's shame".

Zhanna Alexanyan