Armenian opposition secretary predicts election fraud

Armenian opposition secretary predicts election fraud

Arminfo
7 Dec 04

Yerevan, 7 December: “One cannot but call the discord inside the
ruling coalition about reforming Armenia’s electoral code ruckuses,”
the secretary of the parliamentary faction of the [Armenian] opposition
Justice bloc, Viktor Dallakyan, has told Arminfo.

The parties in the ruling coalition have neither a principled
position, nor the interests of the state in mind, he said. “The
issue of the ratio of the number of deputies elected on party lists
and from single-seat constituencies is artificially exaggerated. The
problem is not about the ratio of the number of deputies elected on
any system, but it is about the presence or lack of the will of the
authorities to hold just and fair elections. Under the circumstances,
the elections will be falsified equally both on the party lists and
in first-past-the-post constituencies,” Dallakyan stressed.

He said that the representatives of the three parties are only
concerned about having seats in the future parliament rather than
reforming the electoral code.

[Passage omitted: background]