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Vardashen prison inmates vote most for Strong Armenia bloc

Vardashen prison inmates vote most for Strong Armenia bloc

ArmInfo. Vardashen Prison inmates voted most for Samvel Karapetyan's "Strong Armenia" bloc, PARA TV  reports.

According to the source, a total of 74 prisoners participated in the  elections. The votes were distributed as follows: "Strong Armenia"  received 30 votes (40.54%), the "Armenia" bloc received 18 votes  (24.32%), the "Civil Contract" party received 17 votes (22.97%), the  "Prosperous Armenia" party received 5 votes (6.76%), and the National  Democratic Pole (NDP) party received 4 votes (5.41%). Earlier, the  Armenian Ministry of Justice reported that just over 400 prisoners  under house arrest expressed their desire to vote.  No data on the  number of eligible voters in prisons was released.

As a reminder, regular parliamentary elections were held in Armenia  on June 7. 2,500 polling stations opened across the country at 8:00  AM local time. Most were equipped with surveillance cameras. Voting  concluded at 8:00 PM local time, and polling stations across the  country closed. Voter turnout in the regular parliamentary elections  as of 5:00 PM was 48.92%. By that time, 1,224,957 citizens had voted  in the elections out of a total of 2,505,102 eligible voters.

Eighteen political forces - two blocs and 16 parties - participated  in the elections. The favorites include current Armenian Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan's Civil Contract party, businessman Samvel  Karapetyan's Strong Armenia bloc, second president Robert Kocharyan's  Armenia bloc, and businessman Gagik Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia  party. From early morning, observers and journalists reported  numerous violations during the voting process.

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