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The RA Ombudsman office came up with the announcement about the February 18 presidential elections, in which the observations of the Ombudsman about the elections is presented:

In the announcement it is particular stated:

“Dear compatriots,

After each election several results and many assessments come up. The trust of the population towards the elections is more important than the results themselves. The trust of the population can only be gained with neutral and objective assessment. From today on many local and international organizations will present their observation about those elections.

In any event, no observation can be complete and trustworthy for the Armenian nation if the RA Police doesn’t objectively present the number of the alarms concerning those serious violations and details about which part of them were justified:

·        the dissemination of bribe

·        double voting

·        directed voting

·        ballot stuffing

·        the pressure on proxy or committee member during the counting

·        falsification of the results of the calculation.

The Police should also publish the reasons and motives for the assessment of the alarms as reasoned or unreasoned.

It is also very important to find out and present to the public the reason why the operation of the GALA TV was terminated on the Election Day. It is also important to identify all the cases of hindrance on journalists and the observers and prosecute the perpetrators.

The non-credible work of the Police can obscure all the positive achievements in this phase. Thus, gravity of the trust of the population and the responsibility of the overall assessment of the elections lie on the RA Police. I call on all the institutions and individuals to cooperate with the Police in order to quickly and efficiently reveal all the violations and give the public information about the volume and image of the violations. 

The Ombudsman received 253 alarms about the abovementioned violations. Before presenting a comprehensive assessment of the election violations in the near future, we will continue to receive calls about the violations during the election process, follow the corresponding publications in the mass media, the evaluation of the monitoring organizations and the post-election developments”

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