YEREVAN. – There are not as many people in Armenia as the authorities have presented ahead of the constitutional referendum.

Secretary of the opposition Armenian National Congress National Assembly (ANC NA) Faction, Aram Manukyan, said the aforementioned at Friday’s NA briefings.

In his words, the authorities are adding to the respective voting lists the names of not solely those who are dead, but also those who live abroad since a long time.

“For example, fifty people voted for, fifty people—against,” Manukyan explained. “But it’s not difficult for the authorities to expand the list of voters adding the names of twenty more people, [and] which increases the chances of election fraud.”

The referendum on Armenia’s draft constitutional amendments is slated for December 6.

Pursuant to the new draft Constitution, the country will make a transition from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary system of governance.

The opponents of the proposed constitutional amendments, however, consider them to be primarily the authorities’ attempt to hang on to power.