ENEMO describes campaigning process as “calm and peaceful”

According to the interim report of the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO), an organization observing the general election of Armenia, the campaigning is proceeding calmly and peacefully.

ENEMO Mission Head Zlatko Vujovic told a news conference today that there is big progress in preventing state resource abuses compared to the previous electoral processes, which also concerns implementation of electoral administration.

“The first part of the campaigning was calm and peaceful, although there were cases of hate speech,” Vujovic said. At the same time, the ENEMO Mission Head said that the hate speech is a lot less than in a number of other countries.

“We were pleasantly surprised that this election campaign was proceeding peacefully, taking into consideration the fact that the changes in the country took place very recently. We’ve recorded certain cases of hate speech, but if we take into account the general level, here the hate atmosphere is a lot lower than in other countries d...