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The Constitutional Court of Armenia on Monday continued its hearings on the opposition demands to overturn the official results of last month’s snap parliamentary elections.

The court 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.

At today’s hearing, Hayots Hayrenik member Artak Galstyan called attention to the contradictory statements made by Central Electoral Commission (CEC) Chairman Tigran Mukuchyan and caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over the electoral offences.

“Mr. Mukuchyan, you claim that there were no unprecedented number of vote buying cases or violations during the elections. However, the person holding the prime minister’s office said on June 19 that there have been and have already been disclosed an unprecedented number of vote buying cases and other electoral offences,” he said.

“I want to understand how to combine all your claims and this statement of the most informed person in the state the day before the elections? Incidentally, Nikol Pashinyan ran in almost all elections, he called the elections of 2008, 2013, 2017 disgraceful. If he now uses the words "unprecedented” and “disgraceful", it means that these elections were much more disgraceful than the previous ones,” he said.

Mukuchyan, in turn, reiterated his previous statements on the elections, saying: "In fact, I reaffirm my statements made on behalf of the commission."