The HAK (Armenian National Congress) issues a statement today labelling yesterday’s presidential election just the latest in a series of reprehensible elections in Armenia.

HAK said it has verified more than enough cases of election violations to classify the election results as a distortion of the truth.

The opposition political organization again claimed that the ruling regime had again used the names of 700,000 citizens living outside the country but still registered on the voter rolls to its advantage.

“The February 18 presidential election showed just how much the people of Armenia have come to hate the ruling regime and Serzh Sargsyan,” read the HAK statement.

HAK said the ruling regime has proven that it has no inclination at all to back down from the use of the system it created to carry out election fraud, despite the promises it has given to the contrary.

The organization said that it would take the united will of the people, a factor now lacking, to force the regime to do so.