STRUGGLE AT ELECTORAL DISTRICT No3 IS OF "POSTER CHARACTER," VAZGEN
SAFARIAN SAYS

YEREVAN, MAY 7, NOYAN TAPAN. The people has great expactations from
the coming elections though many people doubt as if in the case of
reproduction of these authorities the life will change. Vazgen
Safarian, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the
Progressive United Communist Party of Armenia, a candidate resistered
at electoral district No3 (Kanaker-Zeytun-Nor Nork) by the
majoritarian electoral system, made such a statement at the May 7
press conference. In his opinion, the life will change if political
forces supporting new economic policy enter the parliament. Today, in
V. Safarian’s words, the society is seriously economically polarized:
"there is a voluminous bulk of poor people hardly acquiring their
daily bread near a group of rich people."

He stated that the struggle at electoral district No3 is not of
ideological but of "poster character:" whole districts are covered
with the pre-electoral posters of only one of the candidates. "The
people must understand: the bigger the posters are, the smaller the
given candidate is," V. Safarian mentioned.

In his words, today "some parties" (NT – Bargavach Hayastan
(Prosperous Armenia) made public the slogan "Strong ones are fair,
weak ones are protected" what can never become a reality. Expressing a
confidence that strong ones has never been fair towards ones weaker
than they, the party head reminded words of Confucius: "A rich man can
not remain honest, an honest man can not become rich."