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“I can’t remember any election in Armenia since 1995, following which no fraud allegations were made,” Director of Caucasus Institute, political scientist Alexander Iskandaryan said at a press conference today when speaking about the December 6 constitutional referendum in Armenia and its results.

According to Iskandaryan, he also cannot remember any election held since 1990-1991 whose results were accepted by society and political forces.

As regards the current period after the constitutional referendum, the political scientist said it is going to be quite interesting.

“We face a period when the old Constitution is still in effect, but a new one has already been adopted,” Iskandaryan said. 

To remind, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Armenia has published the preliminary results of the December 6 referendum on the amendments to the Constitution of Armenia after the ballots from all 1,997 polling stations across Armenia have been processed. According to the website of CEC, 825,622 voters (63.35% of the referendum participants or 32.17% of the citizens included in the voter lists) voted for the reform. 421,593 voters (32.35% of the participants or 16.42% of the citizens included in the voter lists) voted against. Head of CEC Tigran Mukuchyan said that 1,296,368 voters or 50.51% of the total number of the citizens eligible for participation in the referendum voted as of 8:00 pm December 8 when the polls closed.