ARF ISSUES STATEMENT OVER YEREVAN ELECTION

Yerevan (Yerkir)
01.06.2009 18:51

Armenian Revolutionary Federation T Supreme Body of Armenia issued
a statement on June 1 over the Yerevan mayoral election.

We were seeing the Yerevan Council election as an opportunity for a
further development of the political system, establishment of a new
model for governing the capital, as well as overcoming the environment
of hostility and confrontation following the 2008 presidential
election, the statement says.

"We believed that in case of a fair election it would be possible
to strengthen democracy and prove that we can get on a new level of
development. Unfortunately, that did not happen," the statement goes
on. "We are inclined to seek reasons for the results that the ARF
showed in the way we worked. We had to show on our own collective
and individual example the rightness of our way."

The statement also says that while the party considers it useless
to dispute the results of the election on the legal basis, the
political assessment is clear: "such election represents an outrageous
irresponsibility towards our state, people and our children, and
the ARF will never accept this situation. As an expression of a
political disagreement with this continuous faulty actions, the ARF’s
representative in the Central Electoral Commission will not sign the
final protocol."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress