Yerkir Tsirani Party reacted on CEC decision
ArmInfo.Yerkir tsirani Party reacted on Central Electoral Commission decision, which on May 21 rejected the complaint of the Party to recognize the Elders to
Yerevan Council elections invalid.
"It is not a secret to anyone that the Armenian Nation make ends meet
on its historical fatherland because of the dictatorship of the Head
of the Republican Party Serzh Sargsyan. The years of this
dictatorship are a catastrophe for the people. The catastrophe is the
mass corruption in all the layers of the society and the high
treason. The two electoral processes held in 2017, the
parliamentarian elections and the Yerevan Council elections
demonstrated that from now on the electoral processes in Armenia are
to be coordinated by the RPA by the systemized corruption. Nowadays,
the problems and the threats created by the corruption destruct the
yet not formed democratic institutions in Armenia, moral values and
the justice. The most cynic evidence of the corruption is the trade
of the own land of Artsakh by RPA and Serzh Sargsyan and the system
of state security of Armenia", Yerkir Tsirani leader Zaruhi
Postanjyan's statement reads.
At the same time, it is emphasized in the statement that the law
enforcement bodies of Armenia and CEC are the coverers of the
electoral corruption. "The property of the Yerevan Mayor Taron
Margaryan from RPA is the evidence of that corruption mechanism.
During the elections to the Yerevan Council of Elders, staff members
of Taron Margaryan's headquarters, together with police officers,
organized mass electoral fraud. A quarter of a century the results of
all elections were republicwide and referendums were falsified. In
Armenia, legitimate power was not formed. Today, political apathy has
formed in the Armenian society, and the dictatorial regime in the
person of the RPA and Sargsyan show exceptional cynicism.
Continuation of this situation can lead to civil unrest and riot.
During the past week, we twice witnessed the manifestation of
cynicism on the part of the RPA and Serzh Sargsyan, when an attempt
was made to conceal massive falsifications during the elections to
the Yerevan Council of Elders, and during Sargsyan's address to
parties and blocs from the rostrum of the country's parliament, in
which he announced forthcoming programs of the dictatorial regime".
At the same time, "Yerkir Tsirani" emphasizes that during the
elections to the Council of Elders of Yerevan, many violations and
falsifications were recorded, in addition, police officers used
violence against the party leader Zaruhi Postanjyan and her daughter
Lilit Drumpyan, as a result of which they were hospitalized. The
party notes that the law enforcement bodies of Armenia, instead of
properly investigating the incident, distributed a statement in which
they emphasized the legitimacy of the actions of the police.
To note, on May 21, the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia
rejected the application- complaint of the Yerkir Tsirani party to
declare invalid the results of the elections to the Council of Elders
of Yerevan. It is noteworthy that the authorized representative of
the party Armen Gabrielyan did not attend the discussions. As the
leader of the Party Zaruhi Postanjyan stated, Gabrielyan was not
informed properly about the meeting because of that he could not
attend, as he was at that time in Gyumri. In his turn, the CEC
Chairman Tigran Mukuchyan assured that all were informed about the
meeting properly. Mukuchyan said that the Yerkir party did not submit
the complaint application, and therefore it will be rejected.
According to the CEC, the application has no legal justifications.
To recall, on May 14 elections were held in the capital's Council of
Elders. According to the results of the elections, the Republican
Party of Armenia received 71, 25% of the votes, the "Yelq" bloc -
21%, the "Yerkir Tsirani" party - 7.75%. The Republican Party of
Armenia will receive 46 mandates, the bloc "Yelq" - 14, the party
"Yerkir Tsirani" - 5.