HEGHINE BISHARYAN: PEOPLE ARE TO BLAME FOR ELECTORAL WRONGDOINGS

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
11.06.2009 16:17 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ All in all, Yerevan Council elections can be
estimated as "satisfactory", Heghine Bisharyan, Head of "Orinats
Yerkir" parliamentary faction, told today a news conference. The "old
style", i.e. wrongdoings, bribery and falsifications, was visible
during the voting, nevertheless, the quality of conducting elections
in Armenia rises by every year, the speaker noted.

"Even though ‘Orinats Yerkir’ overcame only the 5% barrier, its
votes were not purchased," Ms. Bisharyan said, stressing that their
party would improve its strategy by next elections. "Yerevan is not
Armenia, and these were just municipal elections. So, we’ll revise
all our omissions which prevented us from overcoming the 7% barrier,"
Bisharyan said, adding that before elections she had met with different
international representatives who had told her how their countries
organized election and what wrongdoing were observed.

"Coalition parties signed a document on not distributing bribes,
but the agreement was breached," Bisharyan said. Refusing to give
the name of any party, she also noted that pro-opposition factions
had also engaged themselves in such ill practices.

"No need to feel compassion for the people who elected their
authorities on their own. People go to polling stations themselves,
and there, they take bribes," Chair of "Orinats Yerkir" party said.