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    Lragir, Armenia
    Feb 15 2008


    OPPOSITION AND GOVERNMENT EXCHANGED ONE SEAT EACH


    On February 20 the opposition and the government will exchange their
    seats, stated Vahagn Khachatryan, the spokesman for the presidential
    candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan, on February 15 who had taken the seat
    of Republican Samvel Nikoyan while the latter addressed the
    discussion held by the National Press Club and the U.S. National
    Democratic Institute, and Nikoyan had taken Vahagn Khachatryan's
    vacant seat.

    Vahagn Khachatryan noted that the campaign revealed the panic and
    alarm in the government because despite forecasts Levon Ter-Petrosyan
    was able to bring together a major social and political potential and
    the public. Among the signs of panic in government Vahagn Khachatryan
    mentioned the actions of the businessman, Republican Member of
    Parliament Samvel Alexanyan in Malatia-Sebastia community. Vahagn
    Khachatryan who is in charge of Levon Ter-Petrosyan's election office
    in this community says Samvel Alexanyan is intimidating or bribing
    the members of the election commissions appointed by the Heritage
    Party, or Levon Ter-Petrosyan's team members appointed by the
    Heritage Party. Besides, Vahagn Khachatryan says Samvel Alexanyan
    gives bribes to voters, and instructions to the tax service to check
    and pressure on people who support Levon Ter-Petrosyan.

    `However, we do not have a problem, it is going to end,' Vahagn
    Khachatryan says. However, according to Vahagn Khachatryan, he does
    not believe that the presidential election will be compliant, as the
    representatives of the government say. As to Levon Ter-Petrosyan's
    offensive statements against the government, Vahagn Khachatryan says
    it is a fact that the level of corruption in the country is extremely
    high, and even international evaluations state that the most corrupt
    link in Armenia is the president administration.

    Vahagn Khachatryan urged the election commissions to be mindful
    before they commit or help others to commit election fraud that it is
    a crime. `And I do not know whether it is amnestied,' Vahagn
    Khachatryan says.
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