Sona Ayvazyan, Chair and Varuzhan Hoktanyan, Executive Director of Transparency International Anti-corruption Center participated in "Civil Society and Parliamentary Elections 2012" public presentation of electoral projects, which was held in Congress Hotel on April 11, 2012. Hosted by Partnership for Open Society initiative, the event brought together civil society organizations to present various monitoring initiatives, the main purpose of which is to monitor elections.

Transparency International Anti-corruption Center carries out some of the initiatives. During the presentation Varuzhan Hoktanyan addressed "Electronic Monitoring of 2012 Parliamentary Elections in Armenia" and Monitoring of 2012 Parliamentary Elections Campaign Finance and Public Procurement in 2011-2012 in Armenia" projects as the Projects Director.

Sona Ayvazyan who is Director of "Election Postman: Parliamentary Elections-2012" Project, jointly implemented by Transparency International Anti-corruption Center, "Asparez" Journalists' Club and Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office, reflected on the findings of the project, mentioning that seven postmen were trained within the project framework, who visited 70 settlements of Armenia and collected nearly 3000 issues of public concern from 800 citizens and in general exposed problems available in the communities.

The most frequently raised concerns were submitted to the attention of political forces, requesting to reflect them in their pre-election platforms. Sona Ayvazyan mentioned that the public mainly raised social problems, related to lack of jobs and failure to see future. They also addressed issues regarding army, corruption, and low salaries.

Some of the political parties were not privy to the calls and failed to respond, others did not express readiness to partake in all the projects.

The event was dedicated to a number of projects funded by Open Society Foundations- Armenia and co-funded by USAID, British Embassy Yerevan and Netherlands Embassy.