OPPOSITIONIST CANDIDATE TO PREFECTURE OF YEREVAN CENTER COMMUNITY
ACCUSES AUTHORITIES OF DIRTY TECHNOLOGIES

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 15. ARMINFO. “I think any talks about my possible
election with support of the Armenian President an insult to my
person. The whole my pre- election process is facing a strong
resistance of the authorities and the dirty technologies they resort
to,” thinks the candidate to the post of the Prefect of Yerevan Center
Community, Press Secretary of the opposition bloc Justice, Ruzanna
Khahcatryan.

Speaking at today’s seminar “Women in Politics” organized by the
Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS),
R. Khachatryan said that election of an oppositionist candidate to the
post of the Prefect of the Center Community could raise the image of
the authorities, hereby satisfying Council of Europe representatives.

Unfortunately, the authorities create obstacles for the candidate’s
meeting with electors and even pay for black PR. She thinks the
Armenian authorities have a male face. A real distribution of the
power between male and female officials would help establishing legal
order in the country as females “are less involved into dirty
technologies and forced solutions to conflict situations”, she
thinks. Heritage party headed by Raffi Hovannisian, which is in charge
of the ACNIS, has also advanced a candidate to the post of the Prefect
of the village of Berd, Tavush region.