ACCORDING TO ARAM MANUKIAN, ILLEGITIMATE AUTHORITIES MERGED WITH CRIME ARE NOT ABLE TO RESIST CHALLENGES FACED BY COUNTRY
Noyan Tapan
Oct 30, 2008
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 30, NOYAN TAPAN. As Aram Manukian, a Board member of
the Armenian National Movement (ANM) party, affirmed it, today Armenia
has become very vulnerable before foreign challenges. The reason of
that vulnerability, as he stated at the October 29 press conference,
is open merging of the authorities and crime in the country. "In the
latest local self-government elections the authorities and the criminal
elements "worked" together without concealing that fact from voters,"
A. Manukian said.
According to his observation, in the above mentioned elections,
besides voter buying, big and small criminal authorities intimidated
those who refused to take a bribe and did not permit them to vote.
According to Aram Manukian, crime’s becoming active, the aggravated
social situation, the coming liquidation of deferment from term
military service, tragicomic trials at courts against innocent people
organized by a political order and, lastly, variants of Nagorno
Karabakh settlement not in favor of the Armenian side will increase
the number of those discontent. And according to Aram Manukian, in its
turn, it will lead to a power shift. "The current weak, illegitimate,
criminal authorities are not able to resist the challenges faced by
the country," he concluded.