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”Let the authorities not to connect the conduction of fair and transparent elections with the clauses of the Electoral Code. They just want to secure a basis for further lawless actions», secretary of the National Unity faction Alexan Karapetyan says. He considers that the new Electoral Code showed regress as compared to the previous one. In his opinion, taking into account the circumstance that the election process will be controlled by the powers with rich experience of falsifying the outcomes, the next elections will be much more worse.
Among the shortcomings of the EC Alexan Karapetyan marked the order of formation of the election commissions. «Judges are included in the commissions. How is the juridical power connected with the conduction of elections?» he says. He also noted one more omission: the Electoral Code does not regulate the issue of the participation or non-participation of judges serving on the election commission in the court proceedings. Alexan Karapetyan is convinced that the amendments have not changed anything, since de facto judges are appointed by the President.
Justice faction secretary Victor Dallakyan who is a co-author of the previous Electoral Code, noted, «As a matter of fact the Code was not improved. It can be proved by two ordinary examples – first, the process of formation of the commissions offers the authorities the possibility of large-scale falsifications and second, though there is some progress as regards the empowered persons, the Central Election Committee have exceed power of regulating the rights of the empowered persons and observers.
Reminding that the Electoral Code is an essential but sufficient condition for the conduction of democratic elections People's Deputy faction member Mkrtich Minasyan noted, «The new Electoral Code is not perfect, however it contains some advantages.» For example, its authors tried to settle the problems such as the expansion of authority of the observers and empowered persons, responsibility for filing the rolls as well as prolongation of the election campaign period. Diana Markosyan
