Basing on the information from the members of 1500 precinct election commission and monitoring, the Congress came to the conclusion that the next disgraceful election was held in Armenia, APA reports quoting Armenian media.
“It is now the time to understand that the flaw of the Armenian elections is not the shortcomings in the law, various violations and illegalities, but the systemized mechanisms such as inclusion of about 700,000 people not living in Armenia onto the voters’ lists and unwillingness of the authorities to take efficient measures against repeated voting”, says ANC’s statement.
The document also pointed to a number of violations in the presidential elections held Monday, such as voter bribing, inaccurate voter lists, use of force against reporters and proxies, stamp ink disappearing from voter passports.
“The February 18 presidential election showed just how much the people of Armenia have come to hate the ruling regime and Serzh Sargsyan. The ruling regime has proven that it has no inclination at all to back down from the use of the system it created to carry out election fraud, despite the promises it has given to the contrary,” read the ANC statement.
The statement urges the international community and observer missions in particular to stop “babysitting the delinquent Armenian authorities” and providing them with legislative “tricks” in a form of reforms.