YEREVAN. - The legislative provision on not charging electoral observes for expressing their opinion about the elections has been removed from RA Electoral Code and in regard of this ‘The choice is yours’ NGO has proposed to Armenia’s CEC to adopt a decision on that provision.

As the NGO states in its proposal, the provision was removed from the Electoral Code by the parliament in 2011.

The NGO proposes the CEC to make a decision which will not charge electoral observes for their opinions about the election.

The CEC refused the proposal reasoning that only the parliament can make such decisions and the CEC has not the right to make them, as its responsibility is to organize the elections and to provide for them to be transparent and just.