"PARLIAMENT ELECTED THROUGH FALSIFICATIONS IS IMMORAL," PP CHAIRMAN TIGRAN KARAPETIAN CONSIDERS

Noyan Tapan
Apr 10 2007

YEREVAN, APRIL 10, NOYAN TAPAN. "We expect honest and fair
parliamentary elections, for which our party will do its best," Tigran
Karapetian, Chairman of People’s Party, stated at the April 10 press
conference adding that "stormy struggle will go on, especially in
the majoritarian system." As Chairman of People’s Party estimated,
"holding falsified elections is immorality and the parliament elected
in this way is immoral."

Saying that the motto of People’s Party is "The people is our partner,"
T. Karapetian said that in difference to some parties, People’s Party
has worked with the people for five years and has its co-thinkers. "I
do not know with whom they have worked and on whose ideology they
rely," T. Karapetian said. In his opinion, many people were laughing
at his centripetal position formerly, while today all forces have
become centripetal. Besides, in his words, the People’s Party has
been engaged in charity in all past five years and not only in the
preelection period. T. Karapetian called the people "for demanding
fair elections and not yielding to pressures and electoral bribes."

Touching upon the preelection program of the party headed by him, T.
Karapetian said that it has three pivotal points: "moderate
privatization, development of industry, which in its turn, will
contribute to creation of new jobs, and all-round mechanization
of agriculture."

In response to the question, how many votes the People’s Party will
receive at the forthcoming parliamentary elections, T. Karapetian
answered smiling: "Only God and Serge Sargsian know this."