Armenian Police Chief: Current pre-election campaign was  unprecedented in its scale

ArmInfo. The head of the Armenian Police, Valeriy Osipyan, positively assesses the results of the work done by the law enforcement agencies to hold early  parliamentary elections at a high level.

In an interview with journalists after fulfilling his civic duty, he  noted that serious preventive measures had been taken. "I think that  the work was done very well," the Police Chief said. He stressed that  the current election campaign was unprecedented in scale. However, no  extraordinary cases have been revealed.

Valery Osipyan also noted that within the framework of preventive  measures in Aragatsotn and Shirak regions he held a number of  meetings with candidates nominated by the rating system of elections.  "It was important to notify them what is allowed during the  elections, and what is not," the Chief of Police said. He recalled  that the early elections to the Council of Elders of Yerevan held  this year were the best, and the task set by the acting Prime  Minister, was to hold parliamentary elections at an even higher  level.

Today, on December 9, early parliamentary elections are being held in  Armenia. 11 political forces are fighting for seats in the RA  National Assembly - 9 parties and 2 blocs. Elections began at 08.00am  and will end at 8:00pm.