Raffi Hovhannisyan’s claim against CEC rejected

Today the RA Administrative Court, presided by justice Karen Avetisyan, rejected the claim of the leader of “Heritage” party, the presidential candidate Raffi Hovhannisyan against the RA Central Electoral Commission.

Deputy president of “Heritage” party Armen Martirosyan said to the reporter of “Pastinfo.am” that such a decision of the court creates an issue to challenge it in the Constitutional Court, because the poster containing promotional material cannot be promotional in one place and not promotional in the other. “A citizen looking at a poster regardless its size, gets campaigning information, and I think that this is another issue to apply to Constitutional Court”.

Let us recall that R. Hovhannisyan challenges inaction of the CEC and demands to “include the cost of more then 1600 promotional posters of Serzh Sargsyan in the overall campaign costs” and declare CEC decision No. 60-A void.

Raffi Hovhannisyan submitted an application with the above-mentioned issue requesting to declare candidacy of the RA presidential candidate Serzh Sargsyan void. On 25 February CEC rejected the application of R. Hovhannisyan.