YEREVAN — The Constitutional Court rejected the applications filed by seven political forces challenging the election results and upheld the Central Electoral Commission’s decision re- garding the June 7 parliamentary elec- tions. The results of the June 7 parlia- mentary elections were challenged be- fore the Constitutional Court by seven political forces, including the “Strong Armenia” and “Armenia” blocs, which entered parliament, as well as the Pros- perous Armenia Party, which fell short of the electoral threshold by only a few dozen votes. Since June 26, the Constitutional Court had been examining the appli- cations of the seven political forces through oral proceedings. The hearing on the applications seeking to annul Prosperous Armenia Party came very close to crossing the electoral thresh- old. Srbuhi Galyan, the representative of Civil Contract and Armenia’s min- ister of justice, who was recognized as a third party in the case and agreed with the Central Electoral Commis- sion’s position, emphasized in her closing remarks that the applicants had not presented evidence proving that the alleged violations had actually oc- curred or that they had taken place on a scale capable of affecting the election results. Civil Contract representatives had also spoken about vote-buying, add- ing that the vote-buying allegedly car- ried out by the opposition during the campaign fortunately did not affect the overall voting outcome.