“Only the petition of the “Strong Armenia” party was satisfied, partially.” Arman Dilanyan

At the moment, the Constitutional Court (CC) is examining the applications submitted by 7 parties against the decision of the CEC in an open session.

Already we informed The CC held the session behind closed doors from the first half of the day until 17:30. The CC will examine for 5 days alreadypresented by 7 parties against the CEC decision regarding the results of the elections held on June 7 applications, with which the results of the parliamentary elections are disputed.

Presented at yesterday’s session of petitions Arman Dilanyan, president of the CC, said: “Only the petition of the “Strong Armenia” party was granted, partially, in the joint case, the petition regarding the attachment of sociologist Mariam Mkhitaryan’s conclusion to the case as evidence. It was partially satisfied because the motion to call Mariam Mkhitaryan as a witness was rejected.

The petition of the PAP regarding adding up the number of inaccuracies of Article 95, Part 2 of the Criminal Code, which is of key importance in the investigation of the case, to determine the compatibility with the first part of Article 2, 7 and 89, Part 6 of the Constitution, was rejected, but the reporting judge of the CC will refer to it in terms of content.

Arman Dilanyan reminded that they had also granted the request for evidence and requested the CEC to submit ballot papers and envelopes. “Regarding appointing an expert, the petition was rejected with the logic that we will investigate them during the court session. The evidence has been presented, we can examine it at the session.”

CEC representative Armen Smbatyan informed. “Five envelopes with packages at the disposal of 27 electoral district electoral commissions were presented, and 11 electoral district electoral commissions have either already delivered their envelopes to the CEC or have delivered them as waste paper.

Five more envelopes were brought from the CEC warehouse, where there were mixed envelopes. And one voting bag was brought, that of the 1/17 precinct, where all parties or alliances received at least one vote each, so that it is possible to observe ballots from there. The ballot papers that were used during the election were brought.”

PAP representative Aram Orbelyan said: “My proposal is to put the ballot in an envelope and pass it to all the participants.” He also added: “We need it to be a random sample, not a specific look at which envelopes are transparent and which aren’t.” If it is chosen by random sampling from different places, I don’t see a problem, we can move through 27 localities. Did you say to put the first five envelopes that come across, or to make sure that they don’t get through?”

Armen Smbatyan assured: “It was said: put any five envelopes in a package and send them to the CEC.”

Then the testing began in the CC, whether the envelopes penetrate or not.

The full session of the CC in the video

Tatev Harutyunyan