"PROSPEROUS ARMENIA" TRYING TO BUY SEATS FROM "HERITAGE"?
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09:00 pm | March 31, 2009
Politics
"Heritage" party representative Zoya Tadevosyan told "A1+" today that
one of the coalition parties is making offers to purchase the seats of
"Heritage" in the electoral commissions. According to her information,
the prices range.
"They have offered to pay nearly 10,000 dollars for polling stations
18 and 19. The prices and conditions range. The members of the 13th
electoral commission told me that they had received an offer."
Tadevosyan is certain that it will be possible to prevent the strategy
of one of the coalition parties technically, through loyalty and
people who expect nothing in return.
"As a rule, the member of the electoral commission at the precinct
forms the list of members of the polling station commission. I am
in charge of that and to make sure our list makes it there, Hovsep
Khurshudyan and I will submit it together," said Tadevosyan.
Tadevosyan says that "Heritage" needs 430 honest and uncorrupt people
to win in the Yerevan city council elections.
"There are nearly 430 polling station commissions in Yerevan. We
are going to engage people for whom the elections are an honor,"
said Zoya Tadevosyan. She doesn’t exclude including ANC members in
the commissions.
Zoya Tadevosyan refused to inform "A1+" which coalition party is
trying to buy the seats of "Heritage" and hoped that this would stop
after her statement.
She believes that the attempts to buy the seats from "Heritage" go
to show that the pro-government parties are working in favor of more
than one candidate, but she is sure that the government parties will
later unite around the one Republican candidate. Although Tadevosyan
decided not to announce the name, but there are rumors flying around
about "Prosperous Armenia" party.
"The "Prosperous Armenia" party has never applied such techniques. We
don’t work that way and I deny all the rumors," told "A1+" "Prosperous
Armenia" member Naira Zohrabyan.
She also denied the rumors that there will come a point when the
coalition parties will work together and will unite around the one
Republican candidate.
"We are working in favor of our candidate, our proportional list
and only for our platform." Zohrabyan believes that the "Prosperous
Armenia" candidate has very high chances of winning in the elections.