THE NEW ELECTORAL CODE DID NOT JUSTIFY HOPES
Support A1+!“This time the hopes of the society to have a flawless Electoral Code which could secure the fairness and transparency of the elections organized was not justified. The guarantee could be the Electoral Committees the real balance of which is not secured by the acting Electoral Code”. This was the announcement of Haroutyun Haroutyunyan, head of the non-governmental organization “Choice is yours” made during the discussion in hotel Yerevan.
He considers that even in that case a flawless Electoral Code could not guarantee fair and transparent elections as for that will is needed. But he also said that the RA Law on amending the Electoral Code has some improvements.
Deputy head of the organization Khachik Voskanyan mentioned the non-introduction of the ink fingerprints as one of the shortcomings of the Law. He wonders why the deputies considered it something unsuitable to our mentality and did not accept it. “Forging elections is suitable for our mentality, and ink fingerprints are not?”, he asked rhetorically.
Mentioning other shortcoming of the Law, the non-governmental organization “Choice is Yours” calls everyone to do their best to secure the fairness of the coming elections of the local governing bodies in coming September-October.
