TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL SAYS ELECTIONS WERE DETERMINED BY ATMOSPHERE OF FEAR

Panorama.am
20:14 31/05/2007

Experts of "Transparency International" organization conclude that the
parliamentary elections of May 12 were determined not only by bribing
but by the overwhelming atmosphere of fear, organization head Amalia
Kostanyan informed at the press-conference today. People were brought
to electoral districts by force, moreover the pre-electoral period
brought to institutionalization of political prisoners and bribing,
Amalia says. "Employees of many state and private companies were
ordered to vote for this or that party", – she stresses.

Amalya Kostanyan informs that "Transparency International" carried
out a phone poll among Armenian citizens in order to discover the
mentioned facts.

"Only 13,75% of 1018 respondents confessed in being suggested
5-10000 AMD for the vote", – she says. The poll showed that 38,9% of
respondents didn’t consider the elections "pure" and 28.9% found it
difficult to reply. And only 36,2% stated that elections were "fair".