Western monitors representing the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe reaffirmed on Tuesday their cautious assessment of Armenia's recent parliamentary elections, praising the election campaign but criticizing voting in a "considerable" number of polling stations.
In its final report, the largest international vote-monitoring mission deployed in the country by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) again avoided concluding whether the May 6 elections were democratic.
"The voting process was orderly and well organized in the large majority of polling stations observed," says the report. "However, international observers assessed voting negatively in nine per cent of polling stations, which is considerable. This assessment was mainly due to organizational problems, undue interference in the process, generally by proxies, and cases of serious violations, including intimidation of voters."
Armenian News
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