A total of 452 cases of election irregularities have been reported to the police by the media and individual citizens since the day of the December 6 constitutional referendum.
Some 25 appeals were submitted during the political campaign, with the rest being filed on the day of the voting or later, Hovhannes Kocharyan, the head of the Legal Department of the Armenian Police, told reporters on Monday.
“Some 314 reports were from the media, with 21 being from NGOs and members of the ‘NO; front, eight from observers, five – from commission members, 62 – from individual citizens, 23 – from parties, and 19 – from police officers performing their service in electoral precincts,” he said, elaborating on the statistics.
“Seventy-eight reports on electoral wrongdoings were received from the human rights defender, and a probe was conducted or is still being conducted into 31 cases based on the information received. The remaining 47 cases are being considered, so in case of finding apparent signs of crime, we’ll get a proceeding under way in a manner prescribed by the Republic of Armenia Civil Procedure Code,” he added.
Report: tert.am