ARMENIAN OPPOSITION LEADER ACCUSES PRO-GOVERNMENT PARTIES OF "PLAGIARISM"
Mediamax news agency
30 Apr 07
Yerevan, 30 April: "An active campaign to collect passport details
of population is under way across the entire republic," the leader
of the Democratic Party of Armenia [DPA], Aram Sargsyan, said in
Yerevan today.
Addressing a news conference in Yerevan today, Aram Sargsyan said that
"special lists of citizens who should not vote in the poll are being
compiled". At the same time, the leader of the DPA said that "those
people do not want to complain to the Armenian Prosecutor-General’s
Office since they are frightened and do not believe that the
law-enforcement agencies will produce solutions to the problem".
Sargsyan accused the pro-government parties of "plagiarism". He added
that after a statement by the DPA that a real struggle against the
shadow economy would treble the state budget, Dashnaktsutyun [the
Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun] began to claim
that it could treble pensions, and the [ruling] Republican Party of
Armenia said that a battle against the shadow economy could increase
budget revenue by 150 per cent.
The leader of the DPA described this case as the first victory of his
party in the election race. Sargsyan promised that, on 5 May, he would
make public his own technique for conducting an opinion poll, which
would prove that the DPA is capable of earning at least 100,000 votes.