Prosecutor general's office petitions for decline of presidential election outcomes contestation

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian deputy prosecutor general Aram Tamazyan petitioned the Constitutional Court Thursday to dismiss the contestation of the February 19 presidential election outcomes brought in by Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Tigran Karapetyan.



"The claims of the plaintiff are ungrounded and can't serve as foundation for declaration the election invalid," he said.



"A special working group was formed to look into all violations of the election process and secure its transparency. The working group received 52 alerts on violations. 12 criminal cases were instituted," he noted.



Tamazyan also informed that the number of alerts received by the prosecutor's general totaled 232. "37 criminal cases were instituted. The other violations are administrative violations and should be considered in the Administrative Court," Tamazyan said, Novosti Armenia reports.