RA CEC dismisses ANC's claim on recognizing Yerevan City Council elections as illegitimate

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia's Central Electoral Committee dismissed the claim of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) to recognize as illegitimate the elections into Yerevan City Council.



Garegin Azaryan, head of CEC, making a speech in this connection mentioned, that submitted complaints have not been properly composed. The documents do not have signatures, in many cases contain unaddressed, private and emotional evaluations, which cannot become undeniable facts for recognizing the Yerevan City Council's elections as illegitimate.



Simultaneously, he mentioned that CEC does not deny that violations took place on May 31, according to him, most of them were eliminated immediately in elections day. "This 370-page claim does not make ourselves liable to think about possible impact on the results of the elections," Azaryan stressed.



Head of CEC believes, that by submitting such a multipage package to RA CEC, ANC pursued his object to pull the electoral committee into a long official circumlocution.



According to Mr.Azaryan, in order to recognize illegitimacy of the elections, consequences of violations should carry irreversible nature, and the possibility of precise checking of the expression of voters' will should be lost. "ANC, however, has not submitted such facts," Mr. Azaryan said.



The Central Electoral Committee of Armenia must totalize the outcomes of the Yerevan City Council elections by the end of June 7.