Garegin Azaryan: Coming elections to essentially differ from previous ones

YEREVAN, JUNE 27, ARMENPRESS:

The coming elections will essentially differ from previous ones both from the point of view of organization and conduction. Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission Garegin Azaryan said at the press conference today that there will also be differences in respect of ensuring publicity and making the results more available.

"The commission has been actively engaged into the reforms of the Armenian Electoral Code. Our engagement is highlighted as if we had made each proposal taking into consideration the experience we had, the suggestions presented by the international observing missions as well as remarks of the parliamentarians.

Referring to the proposal of the extra parliamentary opposition on having 2 thousand international experts, the chairman of the CEC said the more is the number of international experts the better but the 2000 is unreal. "I do not understand if we have 2 thousand international experts what will the entrusted people of parties do? We must not forget that they have greater rights than the observers do", Azaryan said.