Committee chief violates law, goes unpunished - opposition candidate’s proxy

PanARMENIAN.Net - Head of the electoral committee of 7/02 polling station in Yerevan’s Malatia-Sebastia administrative district Artashes Grigoryan violated the regulations, representative of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) Nikol Pashinyan’s proxy Sipan Pashinyan said.

“The committee head entered the polling booths where the voters stood, arguing he wants to switch on the light. I objected to this saying he cannot come in, but he gave no response,” he told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

According to Sipan Pashinyan, he registered this violation, but members of the committee and other proxies refused to sign the protocol saying they did not see this, though the incident occurred before their eyes.

Besides, the opposition proxy said, he registered the vanishing ink marks in voters’ passports, but again those present said they saw nothing of the kind.

When ANC proxy suggested that Grigoryan should sign the paper, he first talked over the phone, then started yelling claiming he has no right to sign such documents.

A PanARMENIAN.Net reporter tried to clarify the details with Grigoryan, who claimed that “Pashinyan’s witness is lying, and this is provocation.”