Kocharyan promised to challenge the election results

The Armenia bloc will challenge the results of the June 7 parliamentary elections, announced the bloc's leader, the country's second president, Robert Kocharyan. The Wings of Unity party, led by former ombudsman Arman Tatoyan, has initiated a recount. As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," businessman Gagik Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia party, following the Central Election Commission's revised data, has lost its 4% threshold and will not enter the new parliament. "The Civil Contract Party received 49.825% of the vote. The opposition received 37.23% of the vote: the Strong Armenia bloc received 23.281%, the Armenia bloc - 9.934%, and Prosperous Armenia - 3.996%.

The Armenia bloc will appeal the results of the parliamentary elections held on June 7, the bloc's leader, Robert Kocharyan, announced.

"These elections took place amid widespread pressure from the authorities, arrests of opposition members, unprecedented use of administrative resources, and voting irregularities," Armenia Today quoted him as saying on June 8.

According to Kocharyan, his political force is "discussing further actions with colleagues in the opposition field" before challenging the vote results. "We will not retreat and will not abandon our trench of struggle," he concluded.

The leader of the Wings of Unity party, former ombudsman Arman Tatoyan, also spoke of "unprecedented abuse of administrative resources by the authorities." He initiated a recount and did not rule out challenging the results. elections.

According to Tatoyan, his party has documented “numerous cases” of pressure on voters, where citizens “were required to photograph their ballots and then prove that they voted for the ruling party.”

“We are convinced that the ruling party did not actually receive the support it claims to have received from the official results. “We are convinced that the citizens’ votes cast in favor of Wings of Unity were falsified,” Panorama.am quotes Wings of Unity as saying.

The Strong Armenia bloc has not yet announced whether it will challenge the election results. Strong Armenia party member Narek Karapetyan stated that the alliance “will make a more detailed statement after the actual counting and reporting is completed,” Arminfo reports.

The head of the Central Election Commission of Armenia, Vahagn Hovakimyan, announced that the final election results will be published on June 14. He noted that if the opposition decides to boycott parliamentary work or relinquish their mandates, there will be no transfer of mandates to other political forces.

Call for protest in Freedom Square remains unanswered

“Many Russians” worked as independent observers during the elections. Those who have moved to Armenia in recent years. According to them, "the voting was transparent, and no serious violations were recorded," SOTAvision* reports.

On the morning of June 8, a call was circulated on social media on behalf of the "Njar Constitutional Movement" to gather in Yerevan's Freedom Square at 7:00 PM. The call was addressed to "all sane forces." Police had been on duty at the square since midday, but the "sane forces" never showed up, and the initiators of the gathering from the Njar movement "gathered in a group of no more than 20 people."

One of the activists explained that they were "alarmed" by Nikol Pashinyan's announcement of victory before the vote count was complete. The gathering at the square, he said, was announced "to understand whether there were any problems with the elections." He stated that most political forces had no serious complaints about the voting results. has arisen.

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