Constitutional Court rejects opposition appeal to annul election resultsApril 28, 2017 - 16:15 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Constitutional Court rejected on Friday, April 28 the appeal against the official results of the April 2 parliamentary elections in Armenia and upheld the final results, adopted by the country’s Central Election Commission (CEC), Panorama.am said. The decision, read out by the Chairman of the Constitutional Court Gagik Harutyunyan considered as accepted upon publication. The Armenian National Congress (ANC) – People’s Party of Armenia (HZhK) opposition bloc, headed by the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan appealed to the Constitutional Court to invalidate the official results of the parliamentary elections. The bloc, that received 1.65 percent of the vote, sugested that "large-scale and systematic violations of the electoral process, including widespread vote-buying and the intimidation of voters by government loyalists,” precluded the free expression of the people's will. Top stories The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says. Defense Minister Suren Papikyan has visited the southern Armenian province of Syunik, the Defense Ministry reported on March 18. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |