Pushed the observer around
Support A1+!The elections for Yerevan's Council of Elders are taking place in a rather tense situation in some polling stations in the Davtashen district. In some cases, according to witnesses, it has even gotten to the point of beatings.
The Armenian National Congress's proxy at the 5/15 Davtashen polling station Satik Arakelyan told "A1+" that deputy head of the Davtashen district Khachik Karapetyan personally insulted observer of the "Justice and Right" NGO Arax Ananyan because she had interfered in preventing the piling of people. After that, a beating took place outside the polling station.
Republicans Party members didn't let cameramen film the scenes when "A1+" received the news. During the filming, the Republican Party's proxy approached the "A1+" correspondent, presented himself as a sanitary engineer and stopped "A1+" from shooting more scenes.
In general, nobody knew anything at the polling station. The workers weren't even able to register the "A1+" correspondent because they couldn't find the register.
An incident had taken place in the 5/17 polling station of the same district. Representative of "Hotline", observer Armen Kirakosyan told "A1+" that he had found three Republican Party proxies at the polling station, which is a violation of law. Kirakosyan had tried to find out their identities, after which the Republicans started pushing and shoving Kirakosyan and hurt his hand. The "Hotline" correspondents registered the incident, yet president of the 5/17 polling station commission did not sign it and said that it did not correspond to reality.
The situation at 5/14 polling station was calm. There were three police officers stationed at the polling stations and there were no police officers at the "hot" spots in Davtashen.
