THREATENED ANC REPRESENTATIVES?
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01:48 am | June 01, 2009
Politics
"These elections were extremely unruly. There was ineptness everywhere
and in every issue. The organizers of these elections, starting
from the Central Electoral Commission, feel no responsibility for
this significant event in the country," said head of the "Heritage"
party administration Anahit Bakhshyan as she expressed her profound
disappointment with the elections during a press conference today.
Bakhshyan was especially surprised by the observatory organizations
with the strange names, for instance, "AIDS prevention center",
"Avet" educational/methodological center and others which, according
to Bisharyan, are everything but observers.
"They didn’t calculate or follow upon the process. They just stuff at
the right moment, just like what happened at the 8/6 polling station
at 7:50 p.m.," said Bakhshyan.
Mrs. Bakhshyan expressed concerns over the behavior of police officers
during the entire electoral process.
There were six police officers at each precinct and each of them,
according to her, was playing cards in a closed section or doing
something else. Bakhshyanh says that there was lack of discipline
everywhere. There were many disputes and mainly with the Armenian
National Congress representatives. As Mrs. Bakhshyan says, the ANC
representatives were mainly complaining that they had received threats
and were thrown out of precincts.
Bakhshyan personally witnessed such cases in the Malatia-Sebastia
district where there were rarely any ANC representatives at the
precinct.
"Heritage" MP Zaruhi Postanjyan mentioned that the process was under
the control of the authorities. She also recalled the roll calls with
lists of people’s names and the transfer of people by cars. Stepan
Safaryan listed all the electoral violations registered by the
"Heritage" party observers.