ACCORDING TO LEVON TER-PETROSIAN, TODAY THERE ARE VERY FEW HONEST PEOPLE IN STATE SYSTEM

Noyan Tapan
Feb 5, 2008

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 5, NOYAN TAPAN. "What my team-fellows offer to the
people today is the continuation of the struggle of 1988." First RA
President, presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosian stated during
his February 5 meeting with voters in Byureghavan. He said that the
struggle was carried on with honest goals and led to the desirable
results, the declaration of independence, Artsakh’s liberation,
the foundation of a independent statehood. However, according to
L. Ter-Petrosian, those ideas have been distorted in the recent
years. After the incidents of 1999 October 27, in his words, a thief,
robber, anti-popular, completely corrupted power system has been
formed in Armenia. As L. Ter-Petrosian affirmed, today there are very
few honest people in the state system, as the current authorities
"have liquidated the honest ones."

According to Stepan Demirchian, the Chairman of the People’s Party
of Armenia, no matter how hard some forces try to prove to society
that the results of the forthcoming presidential elections were
predetermined by the 2007 parliamentary elections, they will not
manage to. As the PPA leader stated, it is the first President,
who has launched the most serious struggle against the current
criminalized regime. He "was made a target" from the start of the
election campaign. S. Demirchian called those present at the rally
for taking an active part in he February 19 elections.

According to Aram Sargsian, the Chairman of the Hanrapetutiun party,
mass collection of passports from citizens has a purely psychological
character: the authorities do it for intimidating the people and
causing a feeling of dependence in them.