A single inter-party staff for monitoring the elections, made a statement on the violations taking place at parliamentary elections in Armenia on Sunday, RIA Novosti reported.
"The staff pays attention of the state bodies of Armenia and international observers to the very disturbing fact that, starting from 8:00 in the morning, during the parliamentary elections a well-planned large-scale fraud takes place: ink stamps that are placed in the passports of the citizens voted disappear and fade in a few minutes, although these notes must be kept for 12 hours," a statement said.
The authors note that this situation is planned in advance, as evidenced by the fact that early in the morning many citizens were brought to the polls, and in the first two hours of the election unprecedented large concentrations of voters were observed.
The statement notes that violence against the authorized representatives, an open vote, cases of obstruction of the normal course of voting are recorded.
Single staff, created by three political forces - Prosperous Armenia, Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the Armenian National Congress - to oversee the legality of the electoral process, assesses the situation as threatening the legitimacy of the elections.
"We urge voters to participate more actively in the voting, which will reduce the amount of fraud," a statement said.
Republic-wide parliamentary elections are held in Armenia. According to the data released by police earlier, some 2.5 million Armenians were registered as eligible to vote in the parliamentary elections. Eight parties and one party alliance are participating in the elections.
Among the parties are the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, members of the ruling coalition Prosperous Armenia party and Rule of Law party, opposition Heritage party, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Armenian Communist Party, the Democratic Party of Armenia and the centrist United Armenians party. Election bloc is the opposition Armenian National Congress.
The National Assembly of Armenia consists of 131 deputies (41 deputies are chosen by the majority voter system, and 90 - under the proportional system). To join the National Assembly parties have to overcome the 5 per cent, and blocks - the 7 percent barrier.