YEREVAN. – Members from Armenia’s presidential candidate, opposition Heritage Party Chairman, former FM Raffi Hovannisian’s headquarters have recorded, from January 21 to Saturday, about 100 cases of violation of the campaign rights and of the Electoral Code. And all these violations were committed in favor of the ruling Republican Party candidate, incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan, Hovannisian’s campaign headquarters press secretary Hovsep Khurshudyan stated during a press conference on Saturday.   

In his words, they have received reports that monetary election bribes are already being distributed. Khurshudyan also informed about the election rigging “novelties” by the authorities.  

“The campaign headquarters of the candidate of the authorities have been distributed colored pens, which will be given to those citizens who have taken election bribes. In this way, the authorities are attempting to oversee those citizens,” said the press secretary Hovannisian’s campaign headquarters.       

As per Khurshudyan, the Central Electoral Commission and the Police start investigating these violations solely when they are informed about them. He added that the Police have not yet announced that they have caught any culprit.      

Hovsep Khurshudyan also noted that oftentimes those, who have informed about the election violations, prefer to remain anonymous because they are confident that they themselves will be punished instead of the actual offenders.