RPA WILL TRY TO BRING THE POSSIBLE FRAUDS TO MINIMUM

armradio.am
21.12.2007 16:15

Press Secretary of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Eduard
Sharmazanov declared in Yerevan today that RPA will make every
effort to hold the upcoming presidential elections on February 19,
2008 better than the parliamentary elections held in May, 2007.

Mr. Sharmazanov recalled that in May, 2007 the nation-wide elections
were the first in Armenia to receive the positive assessment of
international observers. He expressed confidence that the upcoming
elections will proceed at high level, and all the possible violations
will be brought to minimum.

Summing up the year of 2007, the MP stated that, as a result
of parliamentary elections, "the radical political forces were
defeated." According to him, "the new constructively functioning
coalition Government presented an ambitious, but at the same a
realistic program." Eduard Sharmazanov noted that in the course of
the past 7 years "the Government, headed by the Republican Party,
fulfilled the responsibilities assumed, as a result of which the
level of poverty in the country was decreased from 56% to 29.8%.

"In the course of the starting second-generation reforms we plan to
reach equal development of the capital and the regions of our country,"
he stated.