Armenian National Congress (ANC) opposition bloc filed a petition in Armenia’s Constitutional Court requesting to announce the results of May 6 parliamentary elections invalid.
As Constitutional Court spokesman Hovhannes Papikyan told PanARMENIAN.Net, ANC request will be studied within 24 hours, to be further submitted to the Court chair to determine a date for its consideration.
ANC names blown-up voters lists, instances of repeated vote, vanishing ink stamps in passports among electoral violations.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) won a decisive victory at the parliamentary elections on May 6 gaining 44,02% of votes.
The coalition Prosperous Armenia party comes second with 30,12% of votes and the opposition ANC is placed third with 7,08%.
The opposition parties Heritage (5,76%) and ARF Dashnaktsutyun (5,67%), as well as the third coalition Orinats Yerkir party (5,51%) also joined the new parliament.
RPA gained absolute majority of 69 seats in the 131-member National Assembly, 40 by proportional and 29 by majority system of voting.
Prosperous Armenia got 37 seats (28 by proportional and 9 by majority systems) and ANC was left with 7.
Dashnaktsutyun and Orinats Yerkir got 6 seats each (5 by proportional and 1 by majority systems), while Heritage got 5.