ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: ELECTION PASSIONS RUN HIGH IN NETHERLANDS

PanARMENIAN.Net
09.10.2006 13:35 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Protests against the exclusion of three candidates
– ethnic Turks denying the Armenian Genocide – are going on. Parties
lose votes, chairman of the Federation of the Federation of Armenian
organizations of Netherlands Mato Hakhverdyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net
reporter. However, he remarked that the number of those discontent with
the three candidates excluded is growing and the rating of the Labor
Party and Christian Democrats has raised with 3 per cent. "Yesterday
one of the leading TV channels covered a rally held by Turk students
in one of the Dutch towns in protest of violations of freedom of
speech. Turkish organizations met with Christian Democrats, who have
not abandoned their position since the recognition of the Armenian
Genocide in 2004. They called on Turks to discussion on the Genocide,"
Hakhverdyan said. The parliamentary election is due in Netherlands
on November 22.