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DAVID HARUTYUNYAN: A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IN A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY CANNOT GATHER 85% OF VOTES
by Ashot Safaryan
Thursday, October 10, 18:13
A candidate for president in a democratic country cannot gather 85% of
votes, the head of the Armenian delegation to PACE, David Harutyunyan,
said at today's press-conference when commenting on the presidential
election in Azerbaijan where the incumbent president Ilham Aliyev
gathered 85% of votes and was elected for the third term.
"I cannot say how much the results of the election in Azerbaijan were
falsified, although the figures put us into an embarrassing situation.
I don't think that in a democratic state a candidate for president
may gather such a number of votes. This is evidence of the fact that
the political culture in Azerbaijan is not at a proper level. There
are no strong parties and political competition", - Harutyunyan said.
He also added that PACE will touch on the presidential election in
Azerbaijan when it receives the report of the monitoring mission.
"Here we shall have a problem of impartiality of the monitoring
mission. We remember that there were people connected with Azerbaijani
authorities within the PACE Monitoring Mission at the presidential
election in Armenia. At present, the same people are within the
monitoring mission in Azerbaijan", - he said.
Harutyunyan is confident that no member of Azerbaiajni delegation to
PACE will dare to speak from the PACE platform about fraud in the
electoral process in Azerbaijan and the situation in human rights
in general.
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From: Baghdasarian
by Ashot Safaryan
Thursday, October 10, 18:13
A candidate for president in a democratic country cannot gather 85% of
votes, the head of the Armenian delegation to PACE, David Harutyunyan,
said at today's press-conference when commenting on the presidential
election in Azerbaijan where the incumbent president Ilham Aliyev
gathered 85% of votes and was elected for the third term.
"I cannot say how much the results of the election in Azerbaijan were
falsified, although the figures put us into an embarrassing situation.
I don't think that in a democratic state a candidate for president
may gather such a number of votes. This is evidence of the fact that
the political culture in Azerbaijan is not at a proper level. There
are no strong parties and political competition", - Harutyunyan said.
He also added that PACE will touch on the presidential election in
Azerbaijan when it receives the report of the monitoring mission.
"Here we shall have a problem of impartiality of the monitoring
mission. We remember that there were people connected with Azerbaijani
authorities within the PACE Monitoring Mission at the presidential
election in Armenia. At present, the same people are within the
monitoring mission in Azerbaijan", - he said.
Harutyunyan is confident that no member of Azerbaiajni delegation to
PACE will dare to speak from the PACE platform about fraud in the
electoral process in Azerbaijan and the situation in human rights
in general.
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=1B1D70D0-31B6-11E3-93E60EB7C0D21663
From: Baghdasarian