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The Secretary General of the Department of the ‘Heritage’ party, former MP member Styopa Safaryan, who is nominated by the party to the NA majoritarian elections in the electoral district No 1 expected on December 2, intends to apply to the CEC and TEC No 1 on November 26 with the demand to declare the registration of the candidate nominated by the RPA, the Deputy Head of the State Committee Real Estate Cadastre Yerevan Territorial Division adjacent to the RA Government Robert Sargsyan void.

Let us note that the ‘Heritage’ candidate said about his intention at the press conference the day before, without specifying the dates. Having presented a number of violations reported by his team, he particularly highlighted that the number of R. Sargsyan’s headquarters exceeds the permitted maximum of 35 provided by the Electoral Code. Besides that, it was noted that they made videos of a number of territorial electoral commissions, on the territory of which the RPA candidate headquarters were located, which is another violation of the Electoral Code. Another violation was in the form of distribution of R. Sargsyan’s, who is by the way the son of the father-in-law of the Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan, promotional materials by the condominium employees.

As a reply to the question of the reporter of ‘Pastinfo’ the President of the TEC No 1 Gegham Hayrapetyan said that none of the candidates registered in the electoral district, including S. Safaryan, informed about their discontent. “The Commission staff circulates and all the time supervised and did not report any violations. There is simply a misunderstanding: the party headquarters and headquarters created for electoral campaign are mixed up. If there is no pre-election poster with the image of the candidate, then it cannot be headquarters”, said the Commission President.

“I don’t know, how they counted, we have our way of counting, moreover, that it’s not the only problem: there is a problem of incompatibility of the real expenses and pre-election fund resources. Even in the case of 35 headquarters, if we accept that they are 35, the expenses made by that candidate do not correspond to the size of his fund and will never correspond. The headquarters were opened before November 4 having AMD 2,5 million in the fund, but the whole electoral district is overwhelmed by promotional boards, which are very expensive, as well as the headquarters”, highlighted S. Safaryan

Let us recall that 3 candidates claim to the deputy mandate in the No 1 electoral district: Styopa Safaryan, Robert Sargsyan and self-nominated member of the Democratic Party of Armenia Edward Petrosyan. The registered 4th candidate, nominated by the Armenian Green Party (Social-Ecological) the President of the same party Armenak Dovlatyan rejected the election campaign on the last day of announcing withdrawal.

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