Tens of thousands of people were unable to vote in the local elections in Armenia Tens of thousands of Armenian citizens lost their constitutional right to participate in election procedures on the territory of the republic due to a law passed this summer at the initiative of the ruling party, said Gham Manoukian, a member of the Armenian parliament from the opposition party "Armenia". "Welcome to Nikolov Armenia. Today, elections are being held for local government bodies in various regions of Armenia. Now I'm in the city of Martoni, where elections are also being held," said the lieutenant during a live broadcast on Facebook. - Since the early hours of the morning, the largest number of complaints received concerns the shameful wording of the law adopted by the parliament in the summer of this year "on the feet" on the initiative of the "Civil Contract". In these elections, about 20,000 residents of Martoni lost the right to vote, as the "civil contract" decided that people who had been absent from the country for some time did not have the right to participate in the elections. The deputy noted that the law was adopted in such a shameful and hasty manner that the citizens of Armenia were divided into several categories. Thus, for example, people with dual citizenship and holders of a Russian passport, who left and entered the country with a Russian passport, retained the right to vote, and those who left the country with an Armenian passport lost the right to vote. According to him, in this way the voting rights were denied to those citizens who were absent from Armenia for a year. And there are thousands of such citizens. The "civil contract" changed the law after the parliamentary elections on June 7 in order to correct in the future the denial of the right of hundreds of thousands of Armenian citizens to participate in elections and referendums," stressed Manoukian. According to preliminary data, the Civil Contract Party won the local elections. coincidence? Turan Express support our channel in Georgian.

Tens of thousands of people were unable to vote in the local elections in Armenia Tens of thousands of Armenian citizens lost their constitutional right to participate in election procedures on the territory of the republic due to a law passed this summer at the initiative of the ruling party, said Gham Manoukian, a member of the Armenian parliament from the opposition party "Armenia". "Welcome to Nikolov Armenia. Today, elections are being held for local government bodies in various regions of Armenia. Now I'm in the city of Martoni, where elections are also being held," said the lieutenant during a live broadcast on Facebook. - Since the early hours of the morning, the largest number of complaints received concerns the shameful wording of the law adopted by the parliament in the summer of this year "on the feet" on the initiative of the "Civil Contract". In these elections, about 20,000 residents of Martoni lost the right to vote, as the "civil contract" decided that people who had been absent from the country for some time did not have the right to participate in the elections. The deputy noted that the law was adopted in such a shameful and hasty manner that the citizens of Armenia were divided into several categories. Thus, for example, people with dual citizenship and holders of a Russian passport, who left and entered the country with a Russian passport, retained the right to vote, and those who left the country with an Armenian passport lost the right to vote. According to him, in this way the voting rights were denied to those citizens who were absent from Armenia for a year. And there are thousands of such citizens. The "civil contract" changed the law after the parliamentary elections on June 7 in order to correct in the future the denial of the right of hundreds of thousands of Armenian citizens to participate in elections and referendums," stressed Manoukian. According to preliminary data, the Civil Contract Party won the local elections. coincidence? Turan Express support our channel in Georgian.