Bribes played a key role in Armenia parliamentary elections: TIJuly 4, 2017 - 12:58 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center (TI) has published its report on the parliamentary elections held across Armenia on April 2, according to which bribes played a key role in the outcome of the poll. Summing up the pre-election period, the TI said it has registered 90 cases of election violations overall. According to TI executive director Varujan Hoktanyan, almost all political forces bribed the voters. “I can’t provide specific numbers but the Republican Party (RPA) accounted for the majority of such violations,” Hoktanyan said, adding that others were also reported to be bribing voters. Hoktanyan said misuse of administrative resources also played a certain role in the recent elections. Four political forces made it to the parliament on April 2 - RPA, Tsarukyan bloc, Yelk bloc and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation - Dashnaktsutyun. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. 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. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |