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SHAVARSH KOCHARIAN DOES NOT FOLLOW "IMMORAL EXAMPLES" AND DOES NOT LEAVE "ARDAROUTIUN" FACTION
Noyan Tapan
Sept 08 2006
ATTENTION, CORRECTED !!! YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN. Commenting
upon NA Deputies Victor Dallakian's and Tatul Manaserian's leaving the
"Ardaroutiun" (Justice) faction, Shavarsh Kocharian, the Chairman
of the National Democratic Party stated at the September 8 press
conference that his party will never take that step as he, in his
own words, "does not follow immoral examples." At the same time,
in Kocharian's words, the NDP dampened participation in works of the
"Ardaroutiun" faction, and it will last as long as "the faction will
not review the whole way it passed, will not give estimations and
be ready to act in other way and not in the same way." As for the
inner-political processes in the country, the speaker mentioned
that there are a number of dangers in the political life. In
Shavarsh Kocharian's words, the authorities' striving in Armenia for
reproduction became a tradition "as the system is autoritarian." In his
words, shady business, presence of criminal elements united with the
authorities, "stamping" in the Eurointegration issue and demographic
state of the country with low indexes of birthrate are classified among
dangers. Speaking about the draft to the new electoral code, Kocharian
considered necessary establishment of electronic control. According
to the program of those controls, a computer, video camera, scanner
and a monitor attached to ballot-box must be placed in every polling
station. They will fix number of papers entering the ballot-box
every moment. And the scanner must fix the number of passports, and
if any passport has already appeared anywhere, it will at once raise
alarm. The NDP expected that it was possible to get the financial
assistance of 4 mln dollars necessary for the program from money
allocated by the U.S. Depatment of State, but, in Kocharian's words,
the OSCE Ambassador and U.S. Embassy representatives, seeing that
only the given party is interested in that affair, did not express
readiness to help.
Noyan Tapan
Sept 08 2006
ATTENTION, CORRECTED !!! YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN. Commenting
upon NA Deputies Victor Dallakian's and Tatul Manaserian's leaving the
"Ardaroutiun" (Justice) faction, Shavarsh Kocharian, the Chairman
of the National Democratic Party stated at the September 8 press
conference that his party will never take that step as he, in his
own words, "does not follow immoral examples." At the same time,
in Kocharian's words, the NDP dampened participation in works of the
"Ardaroutiun" faction, and it will last as long as "the faction will
not review the whole way it passed, will not give estimations and
be ready to act in other way and not in the same way." As for the
inner-political processes in the country, the speaker mentioned
that there are a number of dangers in the political life. In
Shavarsh Kocharian's words, the authorities' striving in Armenia for
reproduction became a tradition "as the system is autoritarian." In his
words, shady business, presence of criminal elements united with the
authorities, "stamping" in the Eurointegration issue and demographic
state of the country with low indexes of birthrate are classified among
dangers. Speaking about the draft to the new electoral code, Kocharian
considered necessary establishment of electronic control. According
to the program of those controls, a computer, video camera, scanner
and a monitor attached to ballot-box must be placed in every polling
station. They will fix number of papers entering the ballot-box
every moment. And the scanner must fix the number of passports, and
if any passport has already appeared anywhere, it will at once raise
alarm. The NDP expected that it was possible to get the financial
assistance of 4 mln dollars necessary for the program from money
allocated by the U.S. Depatment of State, but, in Kocharian's words,
the OSCE Ambassador and U.S. Embassy representatives, seeing that
only the given party is interested in that affair, did not express
readiness to help.