YEREVAN, MAY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. 1906 citizens having participated in the elections restored their right to vote, 80 of them by judicial order, 1826 on the basis of certificates given to them by territorial passport services. Sayat Shirinian, Head of Information and Public Relations Department of RA Police, reported at the May 16 meeting with journalists. In his words, 80% of citizens who received certificates at passport departments were citizens taken off the books by applications of new owners. A. Shirinian refuted the statement of Impeachment bloc representative Nikol Pashinian that 400 thousand passports were printed, with which the authorities organized falsification of elections. He said that 194 thousand 623 passports were printed from May 10, 2006 to May 10, 2007, 31 795 out of which for citizens aged from 1 day to 16 years, 49 717 for 16-18-year-old persons, 113 118 for citizens aged above 18. S. Shirinian informed journalists that the Police cooperate only with a French organization on contractual basis in the issue of printing passports. In 2004-2006, 453 thousand 977 passport books were provided by that organization. S. Shirinian said that 433 signals about violations were received on the day of elections. The Police checked 201 signals within its competence, materials were prepared in connection with 9 of them, institution of criminal case in connection with 3 of them was rejected, a criminal case was instituted on one fact of voter buying.

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