In an interview with RFE/RL’s Armenian Service (Azatutyun.am) on Wednesday Sharmazanov, who is also a spokesman for the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), insisted that the government does not publish the signed voter lists after elections and does not want this provision to be incorporated in the next Electoral Code because it does not want to violate a relevant decision of the Constitutional Court. Heriknaz Tigranyan, Legal Adviser of Transparency International Anticorruption Center said that the 2012 ruling by the Constitutional Court referred to the position of the Venice Commission, a Council of Europe body advising the governments of member states on legal reforms, according to which the lists of election participants are not subject to publication. But, at the same time, the Court in its decision does not recognize that to be unconstitutional, she added.

“It does not mean that the publication of the signed voter lists is prohibited by law or that would be unconstitutional,” the expert stressed.

See the reporting of Azatutyun.am.