The election lists are fully rigged, large-scale falsifications are prepared - Levon Zurabyan.

The joint headquarters set to monitor the upcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia has convened today its regular sitting, declaring its decision to apply to the Constitutional Court of Armenia demanding publication of the voters’ lists.

Briefing on the work of the headquarters and its results the representatives stressed that they will demand from the CC speeded-up examination of the application.

Armenian National Congress (ANC) coordinator Levon Zurabyan, Prosperous Armenia party members Vardan Oskanyan and Vahe Enfiajyan participated in the works of the headquarters. The Heritage party refused to participate in the works.

Initiator of the headquarters, chairman of the Union of Political Scientists of Armenia Hmayak Hovhannissyan said the most important issue is connected with the voters’ lists, which are ‘obviously exaggerated’. ‘The list includes 400 000 not existing voters,’ he said.

Representative from the ARF Armen Rustamyan did not attend the sitting as well but, as Hmayak Hovhannissyan said, he has not participated with technical reasons and the ARF too backs the initiative and will sign the application to the CC.

PAP representative Vartan Oskanian said the inaccuracies are rather massive supposing that an assignment has been received to include a number of false names in the lists.

Vartan Oskanian presented the frauds registered by the PAP. They were too connected with the lists of voters.

Levon Zurabyan, from the ANC, briefed on the inaccuracies discovered by the opposition bloc and said they will soon be publicized. ‘We will publicize and you’ll see that it is of a fantasy genre,’ he said.

"The election lists are fully rigged, large-scale falsifications are prepared and the only way to struggle against this problem is that RA citizens set public control over the election lists," Zurabyan stated.  

Zurabyan mentioned that there is one state secret in Armenia, which is kept more confidentially than the country`s information on the armaments.

"There is no such administration that can determine or verify this information. This is ridiculous that in real it is impossible to find out the legitimacy of any authority in Armenia. This violates the Article 2 of the Constitution, which declares that Armenia is a democratic country and the authorities are formed by Armenian people," stated Zurabyan.

According to the words of ANC coordinator [Levon Zurabyan], their decision to apply to the Constitutional Court was also presented to the Heritage party MPs and it depends on them whether they are joining the issue or not.

About 20 MPs from only the PAP joined the initiative to apply to the Constitutional Court.