After the parliamentary by-elections, oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) discovered that their candidate run for illegal elections, ANC Coordinator Levon Zurabyan said at the Jan. 12 press conference. Zurabyan underlined that the outrage occurred when fixing the elections day for January 10, 2010 instead of December 20, 2009.

According to him, it will be the major argument in RA CC where the opposition intends to file an action demanding declaration of election results invalid. However, Zurabyan outlined that ANC would not be confined to it and will lodge a complaint with European Court as well as Council of Europe. “It is an unprecedented violation,” ANC representative stated, informing that presently ANC is disputing the election in two polling districts.

Imprisoned ANC representative, the Haykakan Zhamanak daily Chief Editor Nikol Pashinyan lost the Jan. 10 parliamentary votes to National Unity MP Ara Simonyan (authority candidate). A number of violations, such as beating up of journalists and opposition supporters were registered in 10th polling district.

A.G.