By Ani Arami
The monitoring technology employed in the current parliamentary election is a revolutionary breakthrough in terms of ensuring smooth processes, says Armen Ashotyan, a deputy leader of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA).
Speaking to Tert.am, the politician addressed the reports on technical errors, which he said are absolutely logical given the high overload.
“We are among the [few] countries to have introduced an ultra-modern electoral system, which is the best with not only its legal guarantees but also technical solutions. So no wonder at all that some of the thousands of technical devices, [surveillance] cameras and identification devices may not function,” he noted.
Ashotyan, a former minister of education and science, said they observed technical problems only 30 of the over 2,000 electoral precincts (1.5%) but added that most have been now overcome.
In his words, the election is fully line with the democratic requirement to ensure citizens’ right to express their free will.
Ashotyan said he knows that a team of over 50,000 observers, journalists and civil society representatives are involved in the organizational activities to react to possible frauds or distinguish false election rigging claims from true ones.