MOST ARMENIAN MPs SAY THAT PRESIDENT AND RULING COALITION ARE KEEPING
THEIR ELECTORAL PROMISES

YEREVAN, MARCH 4. ARMINFO. All the parliamentary forces of Armenia
(except for the opposition) says that Pres.Kocharyan and the ruling
coalition are successfully keeping their electoral promises.

The leader of the parliamentary faction of the Republican Party of
Armenia Galust Saakyan says that both Kocharyan and the coalition have
been consistenly fulfilling their electoral programs in the past two
years. But there are still many pending problems among them high
corruption.

Of the same opinion are the leaders of the parliamentary factions of
the ARFD and State of Law Levon Lazarian and Samvel
Balasanyan. Meanwhile the secretary of the People’s Deputy group
Vahram Bagdasaryan says that the ruling coalition is an artificial
alliance aimed to reinforce the positions of the three ruling parties
who have been actively canvassing for the next elections since the
very first day the coalition was formed.

The secretary of the Justice opposition bloc Viktor Dallakyan slates
both the ruling coalition and the president citing the report 2004 of
the US State Department saying that there is high corruption and
unemployment and no freedom of speech in Armenia and that the
presidential and parliamentary elections 2003 in the country did not
comply with the international norms. “This assessment fully coincides
with the opinion of the opposition,” says Dallakyan.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress