ARTUR BAGHDASARIAN STATED THAT IN CASE OF FALSIFICATION OF THE RESULTS OF ELECTIONS IN ARMENIA, HE WILL STAND IN THE FIRST LINES OF THE PROTESTERS
Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
May 10 2007
Yerevan, May 10. /Mediamax/. Chairman of the "Orinats Yerkir" Party
(OYP) Artur Baghdasarian stated in Yerevan today that in case of
falsification of the results of parliamentary elections, he will
stand in the first lines of the protesters.
"On the whole, we are concerned by the concluding pre-election
campaign, as we were deprived of equal access to the TV broadcasting
time and the opportunity to place outside advertisements", Baghdasarian
stated, speaking at a news conference in Yerevan today.
Mediamax reports that the leader of OYP stated that "the TV
broadcasting time was filled up by the reports on the pre-election
meetings of the Republican Party of Armenia, the "Prosperous Armenia"
and "Dashnaktsutiun" parties".
Artur Baghdasarian stated that dirty technologies were used against the
"Orinats Yerkir" Party, whereas the party itself "was busy exclusively
by presenting its pre-election program and did not strive to slender
anyone and earn dividends by that".
Leader of OYP stated that the "bribes of electors in Armenia obtained
mass character, but no one underwent criminal penalty for that".
Artur Baghdasarian condemned the dispersal of the "peaceful procession
of the demonstrators" by the "Karabakhi red berets" in the evening
of May 9.
He stated that "Orinats Yerkir" will be attentively following
the authenticity of the lists of electors, the elections and the
vote-counts. Over 6 thousand proxies of the party will be present
in the polling stations, the video-taping of the vote-counts will be
carried out in over 500 polling stations, Artur Baghdasarian informed.
On completion of the voting process, the OYP will make a political
statement.
"We are ready to accept the results of fair elections, but we will
say our resolute "no" to the falsifiers and electoral crimes", Artur
Baghdasarian stated, urging the media, the local and international
observers to attentively follow the process of vote-count.