ARMENIAN OPPOSITION CONCERNED AT
IRREGULARITIES IN VOTER REGISTRATION.

Speaking at a press conference in Yerevan on 17

May, two prominent representatives of the National Democratic

Union (AZhM) cited instances in which district electoral

commissions in Yerevan have included the names of deceased

and temporary residents in lists of persons eligible to vote

in the 30 May parliamentary election, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau

reported. Vahe Varsanian, who is the AZhM's representative on

the Central Electoral Commission, also claimed that the Self-

Determination Union (IM) and the Hayrenik bloc have sold to

pro-government figures the seats on local electoral

commissions to which they are legally entitled. He offered no

evidence to substantiate that allegation, which an IM

spokesman rejected. LF