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13:38 09/04/2007

T. MANASERYAN IS AGAINST `APROVALS’ AND FOR GUARANTEES

`Irrespective of the fact who has done it and against whom, it may
have a negative reflection’, Deputy of National Assembly of Armenia,
Tatoul Manaseryan said concerning the incidents taken place in
Echmiadzin yesterday. To remind, at the night of April 8 unknown
people have shot a fire on the car. Incumbent MP Hakob Hakobyan, who
has been nominated in the 19th electoral district on majority basis,
was in the car. And the same day early in the morning the election
office of another candidate of the same district, Sousanna
Haroutyunyan, was burned.

In T. Manaseryan’s word, not only the candidate, but the authorities
as well must be interested in the conduct of transparent
elections. Asked whether violence will increase one the threshold of
the elections, the deputy abstained from making prognoses, noting that
it’ a shameful phenomenon for us, though it is not excepted that there
will be coercions. `My participation in the election struggle just
means that one should not work with `approvals’. Guarantees for fair
elections are required from the authorities as well’, Manaseryan
mentioned.

Source: Panorama.am