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DASHNAKTSUTYUN RESPONDS TO ARAM MANUKYAN'S STATEMENTS ON ELECTORAL REFORM
epress.am
11.04.2011
Pan-Armenian National Movement (HHSh) party leader Aram Manukyan, a
guest on Kentron TV's "Urvagits" program on Nov. 2, made defamatory and
overtly false statements about the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
(Dashnaktsutyun, or ARF-D), reads a statement issued today by the
ARF-D public relations office.
The statement notes that Manukyan insisted that his party issued four
conditions to conducting fair elections which the ARF-D neither joined
nor supports. These conditions are: the use of election ink (applied
to the forefinger of voters) in order to prevent double voting;
monitoring the electoral process; filming; and publishing voter lists.
Dashnaktsutyun notes that unlike the opposition bloc Armenian National
Congress (HAK, of which HHSh is a member) which turned its attention
to organizing elections at the last rally, ARF-D (and the Heritage
Party) proposed an alternative electoral legislation back in May,
which contained around 20 provisions that would make elections more
free, fair and transparent.
"The demands put forth by HAK were long raised, more complete and
coordinated, by ARF-D save perhaps for the election ink, which
Dashnaktsutyun proposed to replace with a more civilized version of
passport scanning. Thus, we can assume that the HHSh leader either
is uninformed of pre-election processes or the positions of political
forces or is gerrymandering them.
"It's obvious that the HHSh and its offspring HAK are trying to
mislead the Armenian public, presenting themselves as the only 'true'
opposition or political force, which is capable of uniting political
opposition forces, while by saying 'pan-civic mobilization' they mean
only to follow them blindly," reads the statement, in part.
epress.am
11.04.2011
Pan-Armenian National Movement (HHSh) party leader Aram Manukyan, a
guest on Kentron TV's "Urvagits" program on Nov. 2, made defamatory and
overtly false statements about the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
(Dashnaktsutyun, or ARF-D), reads a statement issued today by the
ARF-D public relations office.
The statement notes that Manukyan insisted that his party issued four
conditions to conducting fair elections which the ARF-D neither joined
nor supports. These conditions are: the use of election ink (applied
to the forefinger of voters) in order to prevent double voting;
monitoring the electoral process; filming; and publishing voter lists.
Dashnaktsutyun notes that unlike the opposition bloc Armenian National
Congress (HAK, of which HHSh is a member) which turned its attention
to organizing elections at the last rally, ARF-D (and the Heritage
Party) proposed an alternative electoral legislation back in May,
which contained around 20 provisions that would make elections more
free, fair and transparent.
"The demands put forth by HAK were long raised, more complete and
coordinated, by ARF-D save perhaps for the election ink, which
Dashnaktsutyun proposed to replace with a more civilized version of
passport scanning. Thus, we can assume that the HHSh leader either
is uninformed of pre-election processes or the positions of political
forces or is gerrymandering them.
"It's obvious that the HHSh and its offspring HAK are trying to
mislead the Armenian public, presenting themselves as the only 'true'
opposition or political force, which is capable of uniting political
opposition forces, while by saying 'pan-civic mobilization' they mean
only to follow them blindly," reads the statement, in part.