We are already receiving reports from various provinces that the provincial governors are summoning the village mayors and forcing that YES win in their province [in the forthcoming referendum on constitutional amendments]. Gevorg Gorgisyan, secretary of the opposition Bright Armenia faction in parliament, told this to RFE/RL.
Gorgisyan added that they have already received such reports from 3 or 4 provinces, but did not want to say which provinces they are.
He expressed the hope that the Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Suren Papikyan, who also heads the YES campaign headquarters for the upcoming referendum, does not make secret calls to the provincial governors, other than public calls, and that the referendum would be conducted in accordance with the letter of the law.