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    Aravot, Armenia
    Feb. 21, 2008



    Taking reality into account

    by Editor-in-Chief Aram Abrahamyan


    The figures made public by [Armenia's] Central Electoral Commission
    yesterday [20 February] hardly reflect thereal choice of our people.
    But even those official figures should make all the participants in
    the election think again,especially four main candidates and their
    teams. The authorities had built their propaganda on the thesis
    that[opposition presidential candidate and former President Levon]
    Ter-Petrosyan was not the key candidate of the oppositionand that he
    would be the fourth or the fifth in the election.

    [Passage omitted: Domestic and foreign organizations were asked to
    carry out opinion polls to back this thesis]

    This propaganda and the sociological mistake was based on the wrong
    calculation in terms of political science thatTer-Petrosyan's
    electorate is a "furious" and marginal crowd, which cannot be too
    large. That is why the state propagators would call him "the leader
    of the Armenian Pan-National Movement [APNM]". They should stopusing
    that label if they are smart enough, otherwise they should admit that
    there are more than 350,000 APNM members in Armenia, which, I think,
    is unpleasant for them. In terms of science and journalism, it is
    more correct to call him"the leader of the opposition; 350,000 is a
    significant figure in Armenia (I think this number was even
    greater)and I think that so many people have voted [for Levon
    Ter-Petrosyan] not because they love Levon or the APNM very muchbut
    because they hoped to get rid of these authorities. Being a serious
    person, [president-elect] Serzh Sargsyan should take this fact into
    account and not listen to palace lackeys and criminal oligarchs who
    say "boss, everyone iscrazy about you".

    [Passage omitted: Similarly, Ter-Petrosyan should not listen to those
    of his people who say that everybody is readyto stand for him because
    at least half of the 850,000 votes that Sargsyan has received are
    real.]

    [Levon Ter-Petrosyan was the founder of the Armenian Pan-National
    Movement which once was the governing party. It is now led by Ararat
    Zurabyan. Armenia has a population of 3,200,000.]
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