THEY HINDER ZHARANGUTIUN PARTY FROM FIXING AGITATION POSTERS
Noyan Tapan
Apr 17 2007
YEREVAN, APRIL 17, NOYAN TAPAN. The Zharangutiun (Heritage) Party,
the representatives of which have already visited Armavir, Kotayk,
Aragatsotn and Tavush regions, estimates the process of agitation
campaign as effective. As Hovsep Khurshudian, Party’s Spokesperson,
said at the April 17 press conference, judging by the reception of
population it can be supposed that electors will be very active. And
Zharangutiun will have an absolute majority in the parliament in
case of equal conditions and relative majority in case of unequal
conditions.
Emphasizing that the main three criteria of holding democratic
elections are accessibility of media, non-exceeding of the maximum
barrier of expenditures and creation of equal conditions for meetings
with electors, the Party’s Spokesperson said that in spite of some
improvement, there are still some problems in this respect. In
particular, they have obstacles when fixing agitation posters. For
instance, for fixing posters in Yerevan’s Malatia-Sebastia community,
in all electoral districts except kindergarten N 34, they demanded to
introduce a permission from Mayor’s Office, which, in H. Khurshudian’s
words, is violation of law.
In H. Khurshudian’s words, currently media are much more accessible
than before the agitation campaign. At the same time, he stated that
some TV companies demand payment for covering Zharangutiun’s activity
in their information broadcasts.
Answering journalists’ questions, Zharangutiun’s Spokesperson said
that from 60 mln drams envisaged by the law the Party has already
spent 9 mln drams (nearly 24.4 thousand USD). It was mentioned that
Party’s expenditures are well-calculated so as not to exceed the
barrier established by the law.