Whether Gagik Tsarukyan’s Prosperous Armenia party will enter the country’s parliament remains uncertain following a decision by the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) to annul voting results in two precincts.

As the vote now stands, Prosperous Armenia is just a few dozen votes shy of passing the four percent threshold for gaining seats in the legislature.

The party says recent recounts and protocol checks recovered more than 200 votes, but the annulment of results in two rural precincts, where it won 213 votes, effectively erased those gains.

The opposition party led by businessman Gagik Tsarukian accused the CEC of taking votes it needed to win five seats in the 105-member parliament, a claim echoed by other major opposition groups.

The CEC, led by pro-Pashinyan officials, claims that hundreds of Armenian army conscripts were allowed to cast ballots after the polls closed last Sunday at 8p.m.

The CEC has not yet clarified whether its Thursday decision to annul election results means that voting will be run anew in the two precincts.

On Friday, Tsarukyan accused the CEC of fraudulently stealing votes cast in its favor, thus preventing it from winning seats in the country’s next parliament.

Tsarukyan claimed the CEC held a secret session that annulled the election results in two precincts without scheduling a rerun, as required by the country’s Electoral Code.

Tsarukyan promised that Prosperous Armenia will take all legal means, in conjunction with other opposition forces, to ensure that all votes cast in its favor are counted.