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Over 2000 violations reported during election day in Armenia

  On April 2, 3112 independent and non-partisan observers of Citizen Observer Initiative monitored the conduct of election day in Armenia at 1521 precincts. The observers registered overall 2131 cases of violations during the preparation of voting, the conduct of voting, counting and tabulation of votes, out of which 1243 have been so far verified. […]

Despite some improvements many violations reported during elections in Armenia

April 2017, Yerevan   Sona Ayvazyan, Executive director of Transparency International Anticorruption Center acknowledged positive amendments to the election legislation and the introduction of the new voter registration devices which improved the election day proceedings. At the same time, Ayvazyan stressed that a high number of violations were reported to the “map of violations” on […]

Citizen observers: serious shortcomings observed during parliamentary campaign in Armenia

  Shortly before the election day, Citizen Observer Initiative and Independent Observer Public Alliance together with the European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) presented their findings on the monitoring of the pre-election campaign. They also announced their action plan for the election day on 2 April.   Varuzhan Hoktanyan, Programme Director at Transparency International Anticorruption […]

Joint Press Conference on the Parliamentary Elections in Armenia

  Invitation to the   Joint Press Conference on the Parliamentary Elections in Armenia   Venue: Armenia Marriott Hotel, Yerevan, “Levon of Cilicia” meeting room   Date: March 31, 12:00 hours   Citizen Observer Initiative and Independent Observer Public Alliance, together with the European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) Citizen Observer Initiative and Independent Observer […]

EPDE condemns the Armenian governments’ refusal to invite international citizen election observers

The European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) condemns the refusal of the Armenian authorities to invite its international citizen observers to monitor the parliamentary election scheduled on 2 April 2017. Together with its Armenian member organisations Transparency International Anticorruption Center, Yerevan and the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor, EPDE strongly protest against the arbitral decision of […]

EPDE held preparatory meetings ahead of the parliamentary elections in Armenia

On February 17 – 22, EPDE experts Roman Udot (Movement Golos) and Adam Busuleanu (European Exchange) held a series of meetings with EPDE observers in Armenia to coordinate its study mission to the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled on April, 4. The EPDE member organisations Transparency International Anti-corruption Center and the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor plan […]

Statement on restrictions of the activities of local observers and mass media representatives in the Draft Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia

The Draft Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia was adopted by the National Assembly of Armenia in its third reading on May 25, 2016. Unfortunately, neither the proposals submitted by the political forces and civil society, nor the recommendations on 2012 parliamentary and 2013 presidential elections by OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission and on 2015 […]

Armenia: Civic Observers’ Opinion on the Draft Electoral Law

  10 May, 2016   OPINION   On the compliance of the provisions of Draft Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia with international standards   According to the Amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia adopted on 6 December 2015, new Electoral Code is planned to be adopted by 1 June 2016.[1] […]

Citizens’ observers demand transparent drafting of new election law in Armenia

  Citizen’s election observers urge the Armenian authorities to safeguard transparency of the process of drafting the new election law and to include all relevant experts, representatives of the civil society and the political parties in the process. The authorities should establish an updated voter register and provide proper voter lists, cancel undue restrictions of […]

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