STEPANAKERT,Artsakh—The referendum on the draft structure of the Artsakh Republic took region on Feb. 20. The European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy (EAFJD) deployed a mission of eight professional, highly experienced independent observers from Spain, and the United Kingdom,Slovakia, Romania, and Latvia,and Slovenia to observe the referendum. Members of the EAFJD mission (Photo: EAFJD) According the Central Electoral Commission’s announcement, 87.6% (69540 votes) of citizens voted in favor of the drafted constitutional amendments, or 9.7% (7686 votes) opposed. The invalid percentage of votes was 2.8% (2202 votes). 76.44% of eligible voters participated in the referendum. The short-term observers who visited 48 polling precincts in all eleven constituencies reported transparent,well-organized and orderly electoral process. The isolated cases of irregularities did not influence the general outcome of the referendum. After the observation, the four deployed teams presented positive reports approximately the electoral procedures. They mentioned the high level of awareness of the population approximately the voting procedures, and as well as the competence and professionalism of commission members referring to the majority of the precincts. According to the mission,the electoral procedures were—in general—executed in an efficient way and in correspondence with the electoral law, despite several irregularities connected to non-competent [...]
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