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Statement of Raffi Hovannisian Headquarters On the Authorities’ Protection and Support of Vote Riggers

As expected, Serzh Sargsyan’s pledges that the authorities will reveal the violations that occurred on February 18 and punish the vote riggers were part of a regular charade.

On April 2, the Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Armenia examined the election documents of polling station 17/05 in the Ararat region. The Service “discovered” that the commission, which was composed mainly of representatives of the Republican Party of Armenia, committed violations ... in favor of Raffi Hovannisian.

This is the polling station in which falsifiers physically arrested Transparency International observer Narine Esmaeili, forced her to stop video recording, and stuffed the ballot box with hundreds of ballots. Any legitimate investigation had to conduct a graphological analysis of the signatures—commensurate with the number of stuffed ballots—that appeared on the registration list in order to reveal who actually signed in the names of absent citizens. Investigators had to determine the citizens who, according to the registration list, cast a vote without being present, and proceed to discover how their names came to be signed. Our de facto law enforcers did none of the above, making it clear that they purchased their higher education diplomas not to seek and serve the truth but to blindly fulfill the demands of higher authorities.

Recent proceedings, instituted by the Military Prosecutor’s Office over the photograph taken at 29/13 polling station (attached to this statement), have been suspended for lack of corpus delicti. The photograph shows the precinct officer—in serious violation of the Electoral Code—standing very close to the voting conscript.

Another case—based on the testimony of ballot stuffing recorded by Syuzi Aleksanyan, a member of the 8/23 precinct electoral commission at Yerevan’s Malatia-Sebastia district, who was offered a bribe to withhold her evidence—was also suspended for lack of corpus delicti.

Incumbent de facto president Serzh Sargsyan has therefore made it clear to that he will side with criminal against citizen, and support and employ even the most blatant violators of the law.

We strongly condemn the criminal behavior of law enforcement bodies aimed at covering up election violations and vote riggers. By endorsing and enabling such criminal behavior, Serzh Sargsyan, as the gaurantor of the Constitution, has effectively resigned from his primary duties and functions.

Raffi Hovannisian Headquarters
3 April 2013
Yerevan

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