TIGRAN KARAPETYAN – HAK SHOULDN’T TAKE SEATS IN CITY COUNCIL
Astghik Khachatryan

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2009/06/01 | 15:31

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Tigran Karapetyan, leader of the People’s Party, stated to "Hetq"
that the results of yesterday’s municipal elections do not reflect
reality. His party only received 2.14% of the vote according to
official results.

"I’m not talking about my party’s votes. I’m referring to the elections
process. The voting must be voluntary but they are directed with
bribes and fraud," he stated.

He claimed that all were responsible for the situation, but most
especially the regime. "They literally brought the votes to the
polling stations. The regime isn’t worthy of those votes."

Mr. Karapetyan also criticized the statement of the head of the
Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities that
declared the vote to be in line with European standards. He said
that the international monitors probably visited only a few polling
stations were the vote proceeded normally. "They should have gone to
the Zatikyan School, to P.S. #39, to see what was going on."

Mr. Karapetyan said that he would call a press conference tomorrow
to protest the election and that the People’s Party would chart its
future course of action in an upcoming congress. He said that the
party did not intend to contest the election results in court since
it would be a waste of time.

He added that if he represented the HAK (Armenian National Congress)
he would not take seats won in the Yerevan City Council and that he
expected HAK to so the same.