ACCORDING TO PPA, ELECTORAL BRIBES AND PRESSURES REACHED UNPRECEDENTED
SIZES AT LAST NA ELECTIONS WERE OUT OF POLLING STATIONS
YEREVAN, MAY 14, NOYAN TAPAN. According to the estimation of the
People’s Party of Armenia, the last NA elections can not be considered
free and fair ones: the electoral bribe, pressures and terrors upon
voters reached unprecedented sizes. PPA Chairman Stepan Demirchian
expressed a confidence at the May 14 meeting with journalists that
this time everything happened out of polling stations, with the help
of attracting voters being in socially hard state with an electoral
bribe or terroring. In the PPA head’s opinion, the authorities
attempted to solve two problems: not to allow that the PPA enters the
parliament and weaken potential candidates at the 2008 president’s
elections. Demirchian stated that the black PR towards the PPA
started much earlier: the campaign addressed to discrediting the PPA
during the last 4 years reached unprecedented sizes: "false rumours
discrediting the party were spread and are spread."
Responding the journalists’ questions, S. Demirchian mentioned that it
is early to speak about nomination of candidatures for the president’s
elections. The PPA Chairman still abstained from mentioning if the
party will appeal the elections results to the Constitutional
Court. It was not excluded that the party may address to the RA
Prosecutor’s General Office with the issue of electoral violations.