Country for Life: Armenian authorities intend to legislatively  restrict voting rights of Armenian citizens abroad

ArmInfo.Armenian authorities have decided to legislatively restrict the voting rights of Armenian citizens abroad, planning to introduce a requirement that they must reside in the country for the past six months to qualify for  participation in elections. This was written on his Facebook page by  Mesrop Arakelyan, a member of the "Country for Life" party.

"I studied the regulations of the EU countries so beloved by the  authorities. In 25 of the 27 EU countries, citizens abroad also have  the right to vote in elections, casting their ballots from their  country of residence.  Citizens of all other EAEU countries also have  the right to vote from abroad. Incidentally, in Armenia, until 2003,  Armenian citizens abroad also voted in elections, but this  opportunity was abolished by the former authorities, whom the  authorities so favor. And it's not hard to guess why," Arakelyan  wrote.

It is noteworthy that the entire pre-election period for the  parliamentary elections in Armenia was accompanied by claims by the  Armenian authorities that Russia had allegedly sent approximately  100,000 Russian Armenians to their homeland to participate in the  electoral process and support opposition candidates. No real evidence  was presented to support this claim. Moreover, media polls indicated  that the majority of Russian Armenians in Armenia during this period  cast their votes for Nikol Pashinyan's ruling party.