May 12 parliamentary election were not free and democratic:
oppositional party leader
ArmInfo News Agency
2007-05-14 14:23:00
"May 12 parliamentary election were not free and democratic and we do
not admit its results. The administrative resource and tampering with
voters have won in the country", leader of the oppositional People’s
party Stepan Demirchyan said at today’s press-conference.
According to him, the digits, published by CEC, do not reflect the
people’s will. "The regime tries to solve two problems at any
cost. First, not to admit such a principal political force, as PPA, to
the Parliament. Second, to weaken a potentially strong presidential
contender in my person. However, it is still early to talk about the
presidential election", S. Demirchyan said.
To recall, according to the preliminary data of RA CEC, the People’s
party of Armenia did not overcome the required 5% threshold to enter
the Parliament, having gathered 1,7% of votes.