As the campaign for the Yerevan City Council elections continues, the opposition bloc Yelk (Way Out) has embarked on active efforts towards ruling out the Republican Party’s name from voter ballots.
It has prepared two appeals questioning the validity of the governing political force’s campaign.
In one of the appeals, already submitted to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), the bloc calls for annulling the RPA’s registration.
Two activists of Yelk, Artak Zeynalyan and Edmom Marukyan, took the appeals to the CEC, our correspondent reports from the scene.
“We have found out that [incumbent Mayor] Taron Margaryan distributes electoral bribes. So one of our appeals is a call for annuling the RPA’s registration for the elections and excluding them from the electoral campaign,” Marukyan said.
With their second appeal (which is to be submitted later today), the activists will try to rule out what they call the election check mechanisms to ensure that all the envelopes with ticked ballot papers contain no other unnecessary items after the voting.
“Sample ballots not matching the established standards, as well as those with colored pen marks must be declared invalid. Also, we will demand that all the ballot-papers be sealed by the election committee members,” said Nikol Pashinyan, the top candidate listed on the bloc’s electoral ballot.
He added that their team saw voters in Malatia-Sebastia administrative district being given electoral bribes in Margaryan’s campaign headquarters on Thursday.
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