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ONE ATTORNEY OR TWO ATTORNEYS?

Politics

Today at 10:30 AM the first warning about troubles during the local government elections process was received. Attorney of Ararat Zurabyan – candidate for the post of Yerevan Kentron community head – complains that he was prevented of discharging his obligations. Ararat Zurabyan’s attorney Robert Sinoyan says that the head of the divisional election committee showed him the door. According to Sinoyan, other violations of Election Code were also committed.

The above-mentioned head of divisional election committee (polling station 15/45) Stepan Grigoryan in his turn explains his decision by law: according to changes in Election Code each candidate can present only one attorney at the polling station. Another attorney of Ararat Zurabyan was already there, so Sinoyan’s presence was unnecessary and illegal, says the committee head. But “outcast” Robert Sinoyan refers to other articles of Election Code, attempting to prove that two attorneys of the same candidate can be positioned at the same polling station as it happened during the all elections before.

By the way, as the Central Election Committee informed, in fact according to Election Code only one attorney of a candidate can be presented at a polling station. Nevertheless Robert Sinoyan is going to dispute the divisional election committee head decision.