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ANC LEADER URGES REPORTERS TO CALL FOREIGN ENVOYS' ATTENTION TO ELECTORAL LISTS
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 30, 2012 - 20:26 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The leader of the Armenian National Congress Levon
Ter-Petrossian drew the rally participants' attention to the issue
of electoral lists.
"All elections and even the fate of Armenia depend on the disastrous
candidates lists comprising not even 500 but 700 thous. people,"
he said.
He noted with irony that lengthening the lists by 175 thous. names
compared with the 2008 elections, Armenian police chief Vladimir
Gasparyan probably wanted to prove RA President Serzh Sargsyan that
he is more competent that his predecessor Alik Sargsyan.
According to ANC leader, even voter bribery doesn't help the
authorities, with candidates lists remaining their sole hope during
the elections.
In this context, he urged the journalists, politicians and political
parties concerned over the justice of oncoming elections to vie
for rectification of lists and publication of the lists of voters
following the elections. Ter-Petrossian said that voter lists were
published during his term of office, the practice being canceled
after Robert Kocharian came to power.
Head of the Congress called on particularly the reporters to draw
the foreign embassies' attention to the issue, noting that he himself
will raise the issue during a meeting with the head of the OSCE/ODIHR.
"The international observers will become accomplices in election
forgery, if the issue isn't resolved," he said.
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 30, 2012 - 20:26 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The leader of the Armenian National Congress Levon
Ter-Petrossian drew the rally participants' attention to the issue
of electoral lists.
"All elections and even the fate of Armenia depend on the disastrous
candidates lists comprising not even 500 but 700 thous. people,"
he said.
He noted with irony that lengthening the lists by 175 thous. names
compared with the 2008 elections, Armenian police chief Vladimir
Gasparyan probably wanted to prove RA President Serzh Sargsyan that
he is more competent that his predecessor Alik Sargsyan.
According to ANC leader, even voter bribery doesn't help the
authorities, with candidates lists remaining their sole hope during
the elections.
In this context, he urged the journalists, politicians and political
parties concerned over the justice of oncoming elections to vie
for rectification of lists and publication of the lists of voters
following the elections. Ter-Petrossian said that voter lists were
published during his term of office, the practice being canceled
after Robert Kocharian came to power.
Head of the Congress called on particularly the reporters to draw
the foreign embassies' attention to the issue, noting that he himself
will raise the issue during a meeting with the head of the OSCE/ODIHR.
"The international observers will become accomplices in election
forgery, if the issue isn't resolved," he said.