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POLITICIAN DISTRIBUTES BARLEY IN VILLAGES AHEAD OF ELECTIONS: PAPER
epress.am
04.02.2012
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) vice chair, MP Samvel Balasanyan
(pictured) continues his election campaign charity work in the
villages of the Armenian province of Shirak. After distributing barley
through the hands of the Republican Party of Armenia village mayors
in Akhurik, Gharibjanyan, Yerazgavors and Bayandur, the turn has
come to the largest village of Shiraz marz ("province"), Akhuryan,
reports local daily Aravot.
Witnesses say the villagers, hearing about the barley handouts, with
passports in hand, pushing and shoving, and from all corners of the
village, made a dash for the truck distributing the barley.
According to witnesses, one passport gets you one sack of barley, and
the reason for the crowds was that barley distribution was according
to eligible voters' lists - that is, it was first confirmed whether
the individual in question was eligible to vote or not. Such checks
weren't made in the other villages, and as a result, fertilizer was
given to anyone who happened to come across.
Asked by Aravot whether he is distributing Samvel Balasanyan's
barley, Akhuryan village mayor, Armenian Revolutionary Federation
(Dashnaktsutyun) member Artsrun Igityan said, "Have you ever seen me
hand out anything? I'm far from distributing - especially distributing
someone else's goods. They know that I don't get involved in such
issues; that's why they didn't approach me."
From: Baghdasarian
epress.am
04.02.2012
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) vice chair, MP Samvel Balasanyan
(pictured) continues his election campaign charity work in the
villages of the Armenian province of Shirak. After distributing barley
through the hands of the Republican Party of Armenia village mayors
in Akhurik, Gharibjanyan, Yerazgavors and Bayandur, the turn has
come to the largest village of Shiraz marz ("province"), Akhuryan,
reports local daily Aravot.
Witnesses say the villagers, hearing about the barley handouts, with
passports in hand, pushing and shoving, and from all corners of the
village, made a dash for the truck distributing the barley.
According to witnesses, one passport gets you one sack of barley, and
the reason for the crowds was that barley distribution was according
to eligible voters' lists - that is, it was first confirmed whether
the individual in question was eligible to vote or not. Such checks
weren't made in the other villages, and as a result, fertilizer was
given to anyone who happened to come across.
Asked by Aravot whether he is distributing Samvel Balasanyan's
barley, Akhuryan village mayor, Armenian Revolutionary Federation
(Dashnaktsutyun) member Artsrun Igityan said, "Have you ever seen me
hand out anything? I'm far from distributing - especially distributing
someone else's goods. They know that I don't get involved in such
issues; that's why they didn't approach me."
From: Baghdasarian