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DID THE CANDIDATE HAVE TO BE KILLED?
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country25748.html
Published: 11:19:46 - 09/04/2012
The National Assembly has set up an election monitoring group to
react to violations. Violations came earlier than expected. The
parliamentary candidate in Armavir, Meruzhan Mkhoyan, was forced to
withdraw from the race under the pressure of the criminal Republican
opponent. The man was beaten up which was confirmed by both forensic
experts and OSCE/ODIHR.
This is a very good chance to show the mechanisms the police and
the parliamentary monitoring group and the CEC are going to apply to
prevent breaches. If this outrageous case is not assessed properly,
we can flush the elections and state that violence will win again.
Why did the law enforcement bodies fail to detain Republican Member
of Parliament Nahapet Gevoryan whose people, according to witnesses,
beat up the candidate? Are the police hands tied? Or is parliamentary
immunity meant to defend them from justice?
Do the Central Election Commission and the coalition or the
parliamentary group want to reveal the cases related to the RPA? Or
are they just waiting for the youths of the Armenian National Congress
or Heritage MPs to clash with the police to accuse them of resistance
to the government?
What else should happen for these bodies to react? Did they need to
kill the candidate to cause any reaction?
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country25748.html
Published: 11:19:46 - 09/04/2012
The National Assembly has set up an election monitoring group to
react to violations. Violations came earlier than expected. The
parliamentary candidate in Armavir, Meruzhan Mkhoyan, was forced to
withdraw from the race under the pressure of the criminal Republican
opponent. The man was beaten up which was confirmed by both forensic
experts and OSCE/ODIHR.
This is a very good chance to show the mechanisms the police and
the parliamentary monitoring group and the CEC are going to apply to
prevent breaches. If this outrageous case is not assessed properly,
we can flush the elections and state that violence will win again.
Why did the law enforcement bodies fail to detain Republican Member
of Parliament Nahapet Gevoryan whose people, according to witnesses,
beat up the candidate? Are the police hands tied? Or is parliamentary
immunity meant to defend them from justice?
Do the Central Election Commission and the coalition or the
parliamentary group want to reveal the cases related to the RPA? Or
are they just waiting for the youths of the Armenian National Congress
or Heritage MPs to clash with the police to accuse them of resistance
to the government?
What else should happen for these bodies to react? Did they need to
kill the candidate to cause any reaction?