While CEC Chairman Artak Sahradyan announced on Public TV the elections are conducted in accordance with law, the pre-election headquarters for candidates keep getting calls on breaches . In connection with this proxy for Aram Karapetyan A. Aghababyan put in an application to CEC Chairman Artak Sahradyan. “I inform You that 10-15 strangers, headed by Echmiadzin Mayor, burst into the election centres...

At 11:00 AM data, February 19 112.000 out of 2.295.330 voters of Armenia have taken part in the voting . No application of appeal has yet been put.

Today CNN running line has said for many times, according to surveys, more than 50 1.jpg%We asked him why he didn’t make the appropriate note. The member of committee lost his temper, saying “you make a mountain out of a molehill!” . Even the most indifferent citizen will understand how the lines like the one above will be used . It is to state CEC hasn’t worked out any proper note for the citizens of Armenia abroad. VOTING PAPERS...

Today in N 0351 polling station /N 24 school/ election process was stopped for 10 minutes. At 11:00 AM candidate for presidency Robert Kocharyan came to the election centre with his family and the bodyguards . Robert Kocharyan refused to answer the questions by the representatives of Armenian and foreign Mass Media. He just said “he would go home to take rest, then to the headquarters” . According to him, “everything possible was done...

“There is no freedom of speech in Karabakh”, says Ruzan Ishkhanyan, a member of Stepanakert’s Press Club. In her opinion, some progress is still seen in this sphere, however, any opposition-minded journalist could face trouble. In fact, there is no the opposition in Karabakh and political parties, as a rule, undertake some activity only at the time of election, Ishkhanyan says. Stepanakert’s Press Club hasn’t supported any part and any...

Grisha Sargssyan, Co-ordinator of Command Council of Artsakh Liberation War, announced. “Defence Minister has become the head of Kocharyan’s pre-election headquarters. It means Army will unanimously elect Robert Kocharyan” , he says. The participants of Artsakh Liberation War made a statement which particularly says. “Feeling inevitability of the dangerously explosive situation in Armenia, we announce that we are ready to support for...

CIS inter-Parliamentary Assembly Observers’ group has been to Armenia on the mission for watching elections. 7 MPs from Russia, Georgia, Tajikistan, Kirghizia and Moldavia are included in the group. Some of the observers suggested to be allowed to sit near the committee members during the votes calculation on the election day. Naturally, CEC didn’t meet their suggestion. CEC Chairman Artak...

More than 45000 people gathered today to attend the meeting with presidential candidate Stepan Demirchyan and his supporters - Raffi Hovanisyan, Arshak Sadoyan, Aram Sargsyan ("Republic"), Aram Sargsyan ("National Democratic Union"), Shavarsh Kocharyan - and other political leaders. Representatives of the 15 parties backing Demirchyan stressed that he's the united opposition candidate for presidency....

The head of Kocharyan’s electoral team Serj Sargsyan held a press-conference today. Sargsyan said he's sure that Robert Kocharyan will win the elections within the first round. He's sure that the nation will vote in favour of Kocharyan. In his opinion, opposition candidates have no chance to win the election. They are just striving for the second position, Sargsyan says. Sargssyan thinks there really is struggle but through ”intolerable...

Armenian Democratic Union leader Vazgen Manukyan was slightly injured in a car crash today en route from Yerevan to Gyumri. He was heading for Gyumri to hold a meeting with the city residents as part of his election campaign. Despite the injuries, Manukyan reached the destination and met with people.

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Today Garnik Margaryan, Co-Chair of “Motherland and Honor” Union met journalists and introduced them his programs. Though it was expected in the pre-propaganda phase of elections that some representatives of Opposition would propose their candidature in favor of the common candidate / or two/, however it didn’t happen. Garnik Margaryan, candidate for presidency, didn’t propose his candidature, either. He is not going to do it, saying 3-4...

Though the expiry for office rejection passed, one more presidential candidate, Aram Sargssyan, leader of Democratic Party of Armenia announced about his backing up another candidate for presidency, People’s Party head Stepan Demirchyan. It was difficult for democrats to make a decision like that as they aimed to go up to the end. But the ideology was much more important for them in the matter of...

Center-Nork-Marash first instance court continues seeking president Kocharyan’s favour. Presidential candidates Artashes Geghamyan, Stepan Demirchyan, Aram Sargssyan, Garnik Margaryan, Vladimir Darbinyan and Aram Karapetyan have filed a motion demanding the court to find invalid the papers confirming Robert Kocharyan’s Armenian citizenship and his permanent residing in the country for the last...

President Robert Kocharyan has no chance to remain in office, National Democratic Union leader Vazgen Manukyan said at a meeting held Thursday in National Press Club. Manukyan highly estimates his own potential to be elected as a president. The Union leader is convinced the government is trying to win the election in one round. If he doesn’t reach the second round, he wouldn’t supports Kocharyan’s candidacy, Manukyan said, at the same time,...

Armenian president Kocharyan tours the republic provinces not only for his re-election campaign. As recently Kocharyan said during his meeting with Ekhegnadzor’s residents, he has been hunting partridges here for several times. National Democratic Party’s leader Shavarsh Kocharyan voiced anger at the president’s statement saying the leader of the republic is not aware that partridge-hunting is forbidden in Armenia, because that species is...

Combat for presidency is growing increasingly fierce and violent as election marathon enters its final stage. There was a series of attempts to prevent Stepan Demirchyan and his electoral team from meeting with residents of Armenia’s different provinces as part of his election campaign. The thing is that several huge lorries were trying to bar the Demirchyan’s cars moving in convoy from reaching...

Movses Shahverdyan, Chairman of Armenia’s Socialistic Party, has at last orientated himself after long efforts. He has decided to second “National Unity” Chair Artashes Geghamyan at the coming presidential elections basing upon 2 - Geghamyan has a program for social development and he will control October 27 disclosure . It is surprising that Shahverdyan prefers Geghamyan to Stepan Demirchyan as more suitable for October 27 disclosure. “He...

“CEC has bases to declare invalid registration of candidate for presidency Robert Kocharyan” , Ruben Torossyan, Chair of Social Committee for Co-ordinating Election Legality, announces. According to him, Kocharyan has been propagandised for about 800 minutes on TV Companies, so the sum, provided by Law, has already been expended. “If there are extra sums in the pre-election fund of Robert...

AUCP decided to back up Robert Kocharyan in the presidential elections. “We support the promises of Kocharyan’s pre-election meetings. We ourselves are ready to contribute our structural potentialities to realise his pro-democratic programs” , Vazgen Safaryan, party Chairman announced today at Journalists’ House. Despite such stance, Mr Safaryan assures they are a party in opposition and Authorities didn’t promise them anything for...

Under Electoral Code, a candidate, having rejected his nomination, must compensate for the expenses of the state. CEC Checking and Control Service found out how much Aram Sargssyan and Vladimir Darbinyan, having left presidential rally, must pay to the state budget . Vladimir Darbinyan, seconding Geghamyan, is to pay about 500 $. Aram Sargssyan, backing up Stepan Demirchyan will pay about 475 $...

CEC held a session. Presidential elections in a week were not dwelt on at discussion. Committee will enter a new phase of parliamentary elections, after summarising the results of the presidential ones. According to the calendar plan approved by Committee, parliamentary candidates and political parties are to introduce the documents on nomination for election from March 11-16 . If the presidential...

In accordance with the agreement between the OSCE mission to Armenia and the Central Election Commission, 2000 transparent ballot boxes were delivered to Yerevan. To be frank, the event was not as impressive as expected. Very common and not so transparent plastic boxes with black caps were just like pans of Iranian production. Maybe it is a subjective judgement. Any way, we are grateful to the U.S.,...

Taking into account president Kocharyan’s great desire to be re-elected, people who live in liberated area of Lachin have come up with a demand to restore the law in above-mentioned lawless territory, which had been fallen into neglect for 6 years. They presented many pieces of evidence of law violence to Kocharyan’s electoral team. “All the illegalities are appeared to be committed either...