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The European Platform for Democratic Elections Statement on
Presidential elections
14:18 23/02/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/country/view/29056
The elections were characterised by a lack of political competition,
low-key campaigning and a relatively low presence of partisan election
observers in precincts on election-day. This has to be explained with
the decision of the three main opposition parties not to nominate
their candidates for the Presidential elections and consequently not
to deploy their proxies to the election precincts.
Election day was characterised by a committed election administration,
which aimed at ensuring a calm voting process. However, during
election day civic election observers reported on ballot stuffing,
multiple voting and intimidation of voters through proxies of one of
the candidates, which raises concern on the fairness of the electoral
process. Some of those election precincts where civic election
observers monitored the voting process showed a significant lower
voter turnout (up to 25%) than neighbouring election precincts - often
in the same building -where no observers were present. The precincts
with inflated voter turnout showed higher voting results for the
incumbent Serge Sargsyan than for his competitor Raffi Hovhannisyan.
These observations give ground to suppose that both the voter turnout
and voting results have been subject to manipulation on election day.
The new election code provides in general an adequate framework for
the conduct of transparent and democratic election and includes wide
competences for the conduct of civic election observation. Civic
election observation in Armenia deserves special attention by Armenian
and international institutions. Legal provisions for civic election
observation should be further improved and methodological support be
reinforced in order to further develop civic control over electoral
processes in the country and to increase public trust in national and
international democratic institutions.
Full report
http://hcav.am/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/EPDE-Statement-Presidential-Election-Armenia-18022013_final_EN.pdf
Presidential elections
14:18 23/02/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/country/view/29056
The elections were characterised by a lack of political competition,
low-key campaigning and a relatively low presence of partisan election
observers in precincts on election-day. This has to be explained with
the decision of the three main opposition parties not to nominate
their candidates for the Presidential elections and consequently not
to deploy their proxies to the election precincts.
Election day was characterised by a committed election administration,
which aimed at ensuring a calm voting process. However, during
election day civic election observers reported on ballot stuffing,
multiple voting and intimidation of voters through proxies of one of
the candidates, which raises concern on the fairness of the electoral
process. Some of those election precincts where civic election
observers monitored the voting process showed a significant lower
voter turnout (up to 25%) than neighbouring election precincts - often
in the same building -where no observers were present. The precincts
with inflated voter turnout showed higher voting results for the
incumbent Serge Sargsyan than for his competitor Raffi Hovhannisyan.
These observations give ground to suppose that both the voter turnout
and voting results have been subject to manipulation on election day.
The new election code provides in general an adequate framework for
the conduct of transparent and democratic election and includes wide
competences for the conduct of civic election observation. Civic
election observation in Armenia deserves special attention by Armenian
and international institutions. Legal provisions for civic election
observation should be further improved and methodological support be
reinforced in order to further develop civic control over electoral
processes in the country and to increase public trust in national and
international democratic institutions.
Full report
http://hcav.am/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/EPDE-Statement-Presidential-Election-Armenia-18022013_final_EN.pdf