Marukyan accuses Central Electoral Commission of stealing his party`s  votes 

ArmInfo.  Edmon Marukyan, leader of the Bright Armenia party, has accused the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of manipulating vote tallies and omitting his party's votes across multiple polling stations. As evidence, Marukyan presented vote count protocols from several locations within  Armenia's Gegharkunik region.

According to Marukyan, official local protocols indicate that Bright  Armenia received two votes at polling station 2/21, six votes at  2/17, three votes at both 2/29 and 2/33, four votes at 2/32, and one  vote each at stations 2/14, 2/15, and 2/24. However, the party leader  highlighted that the CEC website registered zero votes for Bright  Armenia at all of these locations.

"These are results from small villages. Whether it is one person or  six, they went out and voted for our political force. Yet, Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan had our results listed as zero on the  Central Electoral Commission's official page," Marukyan wrote on his  Facebook page, alongside copies of the precinct protocols. "I say  Pashinyan did this because this entire system belongs to the  government." Marukyan clarified that he is not claiming these missing  votes alone cost his party its seats in parliament.  Instead, he  argued that the issue points to a broader, systemic pattern. "This is  a matter of national importance. They acted similarly across 2,000  polling stations. This was done primarily to project the false  impression that we received negligible support, and secondly, to  strip us of state funding—ensuring that only the government's proxy  forces have access to the state budget."

The Bright Armenia leader warned that an authoritarian system is  being established in the country, under which Pashinyan is paving the  way for a third term. He drew parallels to the elections under  Armenia's second and third presidents, which were frequently marred  by allegations of fraud. "It is the exact same system; he is  essentially doing the same thing. Everyone involved must be held  accountable—from the members of the regional precinct commissions and  the CEC chair to Pashinyan himself," Marukyan concluded.