Photos taken at polling stations in Yerevan’s Shengavit, Malatia-Sebastia and Kentron districts.
Gurgen Asatryan, a candidate for parliament on the HAK-HHzK ticket, alleges that soldiers waiting to vote at the 37/14 polling station in the Tavoush community of Koghb are being instructed to cast their ballots for the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA).
A lawyer by profession, Tovmasyan is serving as an observer at the 7/9 polling station in Yerevan’s Malatia-Sebastia district.
Siranoush Manoucharyan, an election proxy for the Congress-HZhK alliance at Yerevan’s 9/07 polling precinct, has told Hetq that she has seen individuals registered in Vanadzor, Gyumri and the provinces of Gegharkounik and Armavir voting at her precinct.
Police in Yerevan have confirmed press reports that a correspondent for RFE/RL’s Armenian service was assaulted today in Yerevan’s Kond neighborhood while covering voting in the parliamentary election.
Election Committee President Armen Ghazaryan advised them to simply place their preferred ballot in the box and leave.
There are lines of voters waiting outside the 7/39 and 7/40 polling precinct in Yerevan’s Malatya- Sebastia district.
67 reports of violations during the campaign in the run-up for the April 2 parliamentary election in Armenia were filed with the police.
A delivery guy from Tashir Pizza recently showed up at the 9/11 and 9/12 polling station in Yerevan with a bunch of pies, even though no one inside had ordered them.
At times, more than one voter enters the voting booth. The violations go unnoticed by local proxies and the election commission members on site.
Four political alliances and five parties, for a total of 1,479 candidates, are contesting seats in the new parliament.
Of the Armenian soldiers who died during the fighting in April 2016 on the border separating Artsakh and Azerbaijan, 51.3% came from poor families and 32.4% from extremely poor families.
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