Boycott?
Armenian National Commission on Television and Radio (HRAH) today ruled in its sitting that the majoritarian parliamentary by-election at Constituency 10 was conducted within law.
The sitting was convened to discuss the complaint of Ruben Torosyan, Chairman of the Supreme Council Deputies Club against Armenian TV companies. In particular, Ruben Torosyan argued that no TV Company including Public TV had met the demands of Article 20 of the RA Election Code and covered the election in due order.
Mr. Torosyan assumed from today's discussion that the TV companies neither covered the campaign nor publicized the price of paid broadcasts thus refusing to transmit pre-election campaigns. TV companies didn't cover the election as they didn't want to.
"The rough breach of Article 20 of the Election Code or the boycott of TV companies is viewed by the HRAH as implementation of law provisions," says Mr. Torosyan.
In the end Ruben Torosyan noted that the HRAH wasn't working on the day of election January 10, 2010.
