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There are sufficient grounds to overturn the official results of last month’s snap parliamentary elections in Armenia, lawyer, opposition Armenia bloc member Aram Vardevanyan insisted on Saturday.

Speaking at the Constitutional Court, he highlighted the outcome of the case as an important precedent in resolving the future electoral disputes.

“Yes, we insist that there are enough grounds for invalidating the election results. They are conditioned by the quantitative and qualitative electoral violations that we have outlined,” the lawyer said.

He pointed to a number of violations recorded by the Armenia bloc proxies on the election day, including those related to the voting of servicemen and invalid passports.

The lawyer asked the court to either announce runoff elections or provide a new procedure for the distribution of parliamentary mandates if the elections results are declared invalid.

The Constitutional Court opened hearings on the opposition demands to scrap the election results on Friday. It received separate appeals from the opposition Armenia bloc, I’m Honored bloc, Zartonk (Awakening) National Christian Party and Hayots Hayrenik (Armenian Homeland) Party last week and decided to examine them in a joint case.