IN CASE OF FAIR ELECTIONS, "ZHARANGUTIUN" TO GET MAJORITY OF ELECTORS’
VOTES, PARTY BOARD CHAIRMAN IS SURE

YEREVAN, MARCH 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The boundless administrative and
information possibilities will allow the ruling forces to have success
at the May 12 elections. But, if fair elections are held, the
"Zharangutiun" (Heritage) party will get the majority of the electors’
votes, as party leader Raffi Hovannisian enjoys great popularity.
Vardan Khachatrian, the Chairman of the "Zharangutiun" board made such
a statement during the debate organized on March 23. In his words,
data of the sociological surveys held by them prove it. V. Khachatrian
mentioned that parties are in unequal conditions in the sense of
presenting their activity by mass media. Proving the said, the
"Zharangutiun" Board Chairman mentioned that press conferences and
statements of their party representatives and especially of
R. Hovhannisian are not covered by the authorities’ instruction.

Hamlet Haroutiunian, a Council member of the Republican Party of
Armenia (RPA), participating in the debate stated in his turn that the
authorities have neither problem nor time to put any party in
information blockade. The republicans’ activity, in his words, is
aimed to solution of other issues, particularly, to anti-corruption
struggle. "Corruption is everwhere, from Belgium to China: it is the
mankind’s guide. It is impossible to liquidate corruption but it is
possible to decrease its sizes," H. Haroutiunian said. In his words,
an exhibition where means assimilated by corrupted officials and then
taken with the legal bodies’ efforts were presented, was recently
organized even in autoritarian China. Opposing the opponent,
V. Khachatrian emphasized that unlike China, means stolen by officials
is never presented anywhere in Armenia, and those officials remain
unpunished.