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Territorial Electoral Commission no. 1 of Yerevan at the session of November 29 rejected the application of the candidate of ‘Heritage’ party Styopa Safaryan for the majoritarian snap elections in the electoral district no. 1 expected on December 2. The candidate applied to the TEC with the demand to contest the registration of the candidate nominated by the RPA by judicial procedure and declare it void.

As ‘Pastinfo.am’ informed earlier, S. Safaryan particularly mentioned in his application that ‘The candidate Robert Sargsyan and his fellows permitted such violations of the Electoral Code and the procedure of electoral campaign, which can highly influence the election results’. The candidate of ‘Heritage’ indicated the permitted violations by the opponent, who is the son of the father-in-law of the Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan, attaching to the application the photos of the opponent’s posters, a video material about one of the election headquarters located in the building of the TEC no. 1/11 and other evidence.

The Commission did not find the arguments of the applicant regarding the fact that his opponent had more election headquarters, i.e. 50, than the total number of the constituencies in that electoral district, i.e. 35. The Commission did not consider other arguments of the applicant either regarding the obtained goods and commercial services for the election campaign, among them the large-size posters placed in the streets, as well as ‘the photos of A3 format and bigger placed everywhere in the buildings, elevators or other advertisement boards in Avan and Norq Marash administrative districts’, for which the factual expenses presented by R. Sargsyan are decreased and in fact exceed the total amount of the expenses made by the fund.

The TEC partially accepted only the argument of the applicant that R. Sargsyan, having ignored the EC ban, has an election headquarters in the building where the TEC is located. The Commission members stated that they reported this violation and referred to the candidate and since November 22 the headquarters is not functioning any more. As for S. Safaryan’s arguments that nevertheless they reported certain activities connected with the elections there, the Commission members said that simply the pensioners of the building are gathering there.

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