ELECTION 2007 IS ALREADY FALSIFIED

Lragir.am
10 May 06

On May 10 the leader of the Democratic Party Aram Gaspari Sargsyan
gave condolences to the businessmen members of parliament who seceded
from the Orinats Yerkir Party. The leader of Democrats announced
at the National Press Club that they should offer condolences to
the parliamentarians, who were ordered to leave this or that party,
and not the leadership of the Orinats Yerkir Party.

“If a businessman fears the government, it means they can call him at
any moment and tell him what to do or what not to do. Such a member
of parliament has no value at all. If they run to somewhere now,
they are not going to have any value there as well. Because they
lack a standpoint,” says Aram Gaspari Sargsyan. According to him,
what happened to the OYP, absolutely corresponds with the logic of
the system which Robert Kocharyan has established and encourages. Aram
Gaspari Sargsyan thinks that striking the Orinats Yerkir is something
that the system needed rather than Robert Kocharyan. Aram Sargsyan
says such developments in Armenia are probable and continuous,
because for the government all the methods are political except the
political methods.

“Of course, they are interested who are going to struggle for these
very expensive seats in the parliament, which will be the foreword
of the forthcoming presidential election. The Republican Party goes
without saying and, of course, the newly established Bargavach Hayastan
Party (prosperous Armenia), I do not know, there may be other new
parties. Here is the result of all this. Arthur Baghdasaryan also has
to account for everything, for his joining the coalition, having his
specific standpoints,” says Aram Gaspari Sargsyan.

According to him, the government does not forgive those who decide
to secede from the system after cooperative efforts. Aram Sargsyan
reminds the case of Artashes Tumanyan. Although, he thinks, possibly
Tumanyan was punished for an attempt to act against the system, as well
as in the context of the quest for a scapegoat for illegal activities.

“For me this is a dark story, for I do not know the real reasons. If
I had once met with Artashes Tumanyan, if he had explained anything,
it would be possible to draw some conclusions. Though, I think, he was
a scapegoat, because there must have been big breaches in the Lincy
Program, and now someone has to account for it,” says Aram Sargsyan.

According to him, the government will go on acting similarly, and
it has already started to falsify the election of 2007. This is Aram
Sargsyan’s opinion on the recent joining of teachers the Republican
Party. “Namely, 120 teachers in one day unanimously became members of
the party. It goes without saying that this renders speeches about
fair and free elections pointless. It is clear that these teachers
will be included in electoral commissions, and they will be forced,
and they are going to say that they said if you do not join the party,
you will be fired. Nowadays, this is a way people are disgraced. What
kind of people are they going to be. Good people? No. Venal,” says
the leader of the Democrats.