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Haykakan Zhamanak
April 11 2009
Armenia
Armenian National Congress [ANC] coordinator Levon Zurabyan told a
news conference yesterday [10 April] that the ANC has information
that the number of voters in Yerevan has been increased by 8,000
people since the [2008] presidential election.
"We have requested the Central Electoral Commission [CEC] to give
us the official list of voters for the 31 May [Yerevan Council]
election. We will check the list, we will keep an eye on it. Those
additions will show the scale of the election fraud the authorities
are preparing," Zurabyan said. He said that [ANC leader] Levon
Ter-Petrosyan will win overwhelmingly in case of a free and fair
election. He also said that the ANC gets regularly the results of
the internal polls that the pro-government candidates conduct to find
out about their real chances. According to those polls, Ter-Petrosyan
has 70-75 per cent support.
He added that though the authorities are preparing large-scale
fraud, the ANC will fight against the fraud. Zurabyan said that
the best way to fight the election fraud is to actively turn out
for voting. Zurabyan also spoke about yesterday's arrest of Armenian
citizen Ashot Tadevosyan. He said that he saw how a police officer hit
Tadevosyan in the face (he said he remembers the police officer). But
as a result, Tadevosyan was the one who got arrested. "On the first
anniversary of [Armenian President] Serzh Sargsyan's notorious
inauguration, the number of political prisoners increased by another
one," Zurabyan said.
Haykakan Zhamanak
April 11 2009
Armenia
Armenian National Congress [ANC] coordinator Levon Zurabyan told a
news conference yesterday [10 April] that the ANC has information
that the number of voters in Yerevan has been increased by 8,000
people since the [2008] presidential election.
"We have requested the Central Electoral Commission [CEC] to give
us the official list of voters for the 31 May [Yerevan Council]
election. We will check the list, we will keep an eye on it. Those
additions will show the scale of the election fraud the authorities
are preparing," Zurabyan said. He said that [ANC leader] Levon
Ter-Petrosyan will win overwhelmingly in case of a free and fair
election. He also said that the ANC gets regularly the results of
the internal polls that the pro-government candidates conduct to find
out about their real chances. According to those polls, Ter-Petrosyan
has 70-75 per cent support.
He added that though the authorities are preparing large-scale
fraud, the ANC will fight against the fraud. Zurabyan said that
the best way to fight the election fraud is to actively turn out
for voting. Zurabyan also spoke about yesterday's arrest of Armenian
citizen Ashot Tadevosyan. He said that he saw how a police officer hit
Tadevosyan in the face (he said he remembers the police officer). But
as a result, Tadevosyan was the one who got arrested. "On the first
anniversary of [Armenian President] Serzh Sargsyan's notorious
inauguration, the number of political prisoners increased by another
one," Zurabyan said.