In what he called new evidence of serious fraud, the National Congress (HAK) reported yesterday the huge discrepancies between the official results of the constitutional referendum of December 6 and what was actually recorded in five districts in Yerevan.
Levon Zurabian, an HAK leader, showed reporters the alleged copies of voting protocols provided by election commissions indicating that most local voters rejected the necessary constitutional changes by President Serzh Sargsyan. He compared these to final figures from the Central Election Commission (CEC).
In one of them, the CEC reported 1155 votes for “yes” and “92” for “no.” But according to protocol that was shown by Zurabian and which was signed by local members of the voting station commission, the constitutional amendments were actually defeated by 421 votes against 343.
In another sector, the protocol of the Commission cited by the representative of HAK announced 156 votes “for” and 426 votes “against” the amendments providing for the transformation of Armenia into a parliamentary republic. However, the CEC registered 418 “for” and 169 votes “against”.
Zurabian depicts these conflicting data as further evidence that the administration of Sargsyan rigged the referendum. “People have spent all night contrefaires signatures, develop new protocols at the polling stations,” he lamented.
Zurabian said he had submitted the documents to the Attorney General Gevorg Kostanian. “We appeal to the Attorney General for investigation of these falsifications, identify and punish the guilty individuals,” he said.
The opposition party led by former President Levon Ter-Petrossian has published three days after alleged evidence that the CEC rejected his request for cancellation of the official results of the vote. The HAK now intends to bring the matter before the Constitutional Court. But for that he needs to get the signatures of at least 27 members of Parliament.
Only 17 of the 131 members of the National Assembly have so far signed the call HAK. This is the case of Alexander Arzumanian, a former leader of the HAK, which supported the constitutional reform Sargsyan.
“I am in favor of these changes, but I’m also a legitimate process”, was it justified. “Good things made by fraud are not good.”
Arzumanian added that even if the HAK collects enough signatures to the Constitutional Court, it is almost certain that the call will be rejected. According to him, “this structure has never delivered verdicts justified”.
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