YEREVAN, MAY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. With the assistance of the USAID, ramps will constructed in Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor, Stepanavan, Spitak, Chambarak and Goris. Thus 9 polling stations in these cities will be accessible to voters, who move in wheel-chairs, during the upcoming parliamentary elections. According to a press release submitted to NT by the "Paros" center for educational and cultural development of disabled persons, in Armenia polling stations are mainly inaccessible to voters with disability, which contradict the principle of equal suffrage stipulated by the RA Constitution and the RA Electoral Code. Construction of ramps is part of the program "Participation of Disabled Persons in Electoral and Civil Processes" implemented by "Paros". Within the framework of the program, discussions and meetings are held, patterns and "speaking" books are prepared and distributed to blind voters, etc.

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