Printing of Ballot Papers

A1 Plus reports that the official deadline for withdrawing candidacy ahead of the 19 February presidential election in Armenia has now passed. At midnight tonight printing of the official ballots will start.

Interestingly, Artur Baghdasarian’s name will be included although many suspected that he might pull out of the race today to support the former president. It remains to be seen if he will, and whether his inclusion on the ballot will confuse voters.

Today at 18:00 the deadline for submitting a withdrawal of a candidature was completed. None of the candidates withdrew his candidature and the Central Electoral Commission has already prepared the sample of the ballot paper, where 9 candidates are involved.

The printing of the ballot paper will begin after mid-night at “Tigran Mets” printing house. Today the CEC confirmed the sample of the ballot paper with 8 for, 0 against and 0 abstention votes. […]



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