FORGETTING TO WIPE THE TRACES

A1+
[02:30 pm] 27 November, 2008

Candidates are still "campaigning" almost two months after the local
government elections with their pictures and slogans.

Based on surveys conducted by "A1+", citizens of Yerevan are already
used to the dirt that lies before and after each election-ripped
posters stay on the walls and even the rain isn’t able to wipe
the traces.

"It would be better if each candidate put up his poster on special
displays, so that it would be easy to take them off after elections
and that way the city wouldn’t be polluted," says Mikayel Iskandaryan.

Citizen Rima Vardanyan says that the candidates show their attitude
towards our city by putting up the posters and leaving them up.

Citizens of Yerevan don’t accept the fact that a single candidate
puts up 8 or 10 pictures one after another. "Don’t they understand
that they are making the walls dirty and wasting money at the same
time?" asked Nazik Hasratyan.

Secretary of the Nor-Nork district administration Sergey Khalafyan
told "A1+" that they have assigned the communes and candidates to
remove all posters that are "out of limit".

According to Khalafyan, much work has already been done; there are
simply posters that have been put up with special glue and it is only
possible to take them off by scratching. He expressed hope that there
will not be any new posters in Nor-Nork district anytime soon.

The press service of the "Kentron" district informed that there is
no certain organization in charge of the cleaning of posters. They
have warned the candidate’s headquarters to take them off; however,
A1+ reporters have gone around the city and report that nothing has
been done.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress