Armenia bloc to challenge election results at Constitutional Court

YEREVAN, June 21. /ARКА/. The Armenia bloc, headed by a former president, Robert Kocharyan that came in second with 21 percent of the vote in the early parliamentary elections held on June 20, said on Monday that the results were tainted by fraud and that they will challenge them at the Constitutional Court.

In a statement the bloc that comprises the Armenian Revolutionary Federation/Dashnakstutyun and the recently founded Reviving Armenia parties, said it will use all the tools to challenge the election results, including appealing to the Constitutional Court. 'We will begin political consultations with other forces that took part in the elections to discuss the possibility of lodging a single appeal to the Constitutional Court.,' it said.

"We have serious grounds to consider these elections illegitimate and declare that with such results the National Assembly does not reflect the real balance of forces," the statement said.

The bloc said that their observations and information received by their election headquarters indicate that violations began much earlier than the election day.

It said a preliminary review of the signals of its proxies from many precincts on the very day of elections indicates that there was a systematic and pre-planned falsification of election results.

Armenia bloc will have 27 mandates in the new National Assembly against the 71 mandates secured by Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party (which garnered 53.92% of the popular vote).  I Have the Honor bloc, led by Artur Vanetsyan, a former chief of the National Security Service (NSS), will receive seven mandates “by virtue of law”. -0-