"PARTY DURING A PLAGUE" IN ELECTION COMMUNITY 15

Panorama.am
15:21 27/08/2007

"We believe the elections in election community fifteen passed under
unfree’ and unfair’ conditions.

Here the candidates have set a goal to become a deputy by all means
and were not standing against anything.

The situation resembled a party during a plague," Press Secretary of
"Jarangutiun" party Hovsep Khurshudyan said commenting on the results
of yesterday’s elections on majority contest in election community
fifteen.

In these elections, the candidate of the Armenian Republican Party
(HHK) received 16,121 votes, Talin Mayor Mnatsakan Mnatsakanyan –
10067, Dashnaksutiun candidate Gurgen Shahinyan – 7248, Chairman of
"Jarangutiun" party Raffi Hovannisian – 1220, former employee of the
ministry of finance, Vahagn Petrosyan – 96, ex-deputy head of the
National Security Service of the province of Armavir, Emin Karapetyan
– 518.

In the words of Khurshudyan, the three candidates with most votes
"were incredibly active in distributing bribes. Even those who we
were sure would elect our candidate, sold their voices against 20
thousand drams." In addition to bribes, administrative resources were
massively applied, "Jarangutiun" representative said.