President of Football Federation of Armenia beaten up

President of Football Federation of Armenia beaten up

Arminfo
2007-05-12 16:34:00

Ruben Hayrapetyan, a member of the Board of Republican Party of
Armenia, President of the Football Federation of Armenia, candidate
from the single-mandate district No.1, was beaten up at the
poling-station 1/25, Avan community, Yerevan.

As ArmInfo agency was told, R. Hayrapetyan was beaten up by the
supporters of ARF Dashnaktsutyun and Prosperous Armenia parties as he
visited the polling- stations armed and accompanied by his guard and
tried to interrupt the voting. For his part, R. Hayrapetyan refuted
this information talking to ArmInfo.

It is noteworthy that at the 5th polling-station of Kanaker-Zeytun
community, the supporters of Prosperous Armenia party beat the
supporter of RPA who was bribing voters for RPA and the candidate for
the Parliament, Leader of "Democratic Way" party Manuk Gasparyan.
Bribing by RPA has been registered at many other polling-stations. In
addition, RPA activists were verifying the attendance by the party’s
supporters by special registers standing in front of polling-stations.
At the polling-station 23/41, in Gegharkunik region, voters were bribed
by 20,000 AMD to vote in favor of Prosperous Armenia. In addition,
cases of open voting in favor of Prosperous Armenia were registered at
the same polling-station.