YEREVAN. – Much has been done in Armenia to ensure the transparency of the entire electoral process.

Boleslav Pirshtuk, Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus and coordinator of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States (IPA CIS) observers’ group that will monitor Sunday’s parliamentary election in Armenia, stated the aforesaid at a press conference on Saturday.

Pirshtuk noted this after his talk with Eduard Sharmazanov, Vice President of the National Assembly of Armenia.

In his words, the IPA CIS experts’ group had arrived in Armenia earlier, met with many stakeholders, and made its respective conclusions.

“They [conclusions] are very positive, since you [Armenia] really have developed a complete, very systemic election code that takes into account the interests of all stakeholders,” stressed Pirshtuk. “And we were most pleased and surprised that you virtually don’t have antagonism. There are virtually no complaints from opposition parties (…); this, undoubtedly, is a great success.”

He added that it is very important that the actual voting and the counting of votes had become transparent in Armenia.

“And it’s a great progress that you are using certain degrees of safeguard [against electoral fraud] (…), and that you fill follow all this with technical measures,” noted Boleslav Pirshtuk.

In his conviction, a truly objective election system has been developed in Armenia.