Politics

They should at least keep quiet

17.05.2007

The People’s Party of Armenia still hasn’t decided whether or not it is going to participate in the 2008 presidential elections. “Now is not the time for that,” said leader of the People’s Party of Armenia, Stepan Demirchyan, during a press conference on Monday. He said that concerning public meetings, they shouldn’t be held just …

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“Prosperous Armenia” protests

17.05.2007

The results of the vote in the #14 precinct have been protested. Aragats Akhoyan, one of the PA candidates nominated under the majoritarian system, has protested the results of the elections. “A1plus” has received information from the 14th precinct electoral commission that a recount has begun in the 14/7 polling station. There were five candidates …

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“The elections were falsified in an ugly way”

17.05.2007

The “Impeachment” alliance, “Republic” and “New Times” parties held their subsequent public meeting at Freedom Square on May 13, with nearly 3-4,000 participants. The public meeting took place in rainy weather. This time, the People’s Party of Armenia representatives and the leader of the party Stepan Demirchyan joined the opposition party trio. The Social-Democrat Hnchakyan …

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“Let down” by the authorities

17.05.2007

The National Assembly elections that took place on May 12 were not only unique with the level of perfection of falsifications, but also with the abundance of people “let down” by the authorities. It is no secret that the results of elections in Armenia are not conditioned by the citizens of Armenia, rather by the …

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Everybody is at the “throat” of the People’s Party of Armenia

17.05.2007

This announcement made by Stepan Demirchyan was indirectly aimed at the opposition parties as well. During a press conference held on Monday, the leader of the People’s Party of Armenia contradicted the evaluations of the international observers claiming that the parliamentary elections that took place on Saturday in Armenia were one step forward compared with …

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Post-election calculation

17.05.2007

The elections are over and it is up to the voters to decide for themselves whether the elections were fair and transparent or not. We don’t intend to introduce the following figures as the truth; this is just the official preliminary information introduced by the Central Electoral Commission. Even though this information is not final, …

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Who are they?

17.05.2007

According to the recent CEC data of Sunday, three pro-governmental and two oppositional parties have overcome the 5-percent threshold: the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), Prosperous Armenia, ARF Dashnaktsutyun, Legal State Party and Heritage Party. On Sunday at 3:00 PM the CEC released the preliminary results of the voting to parliament. According to the information …

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Is the opposition guilty?

17.05.2007

“These elections are not the victory of the government but the failure of the opposition,” reads yesterday’s announcement by the NDP. According to the NDP, the main reason of the failure is that the main oppositional forces were not able to unite and offer an alternative to the government. “The approach of just opposing everything …

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Who’s the ill one?

17.05.2007

Representative of the “Impeachment” alliance, Nikol Pashinyan, offers to create a committee that will verify his announcement about the 400,000 passports. The announcement reads, “400,000 passports had been issued to falsify the May 12 elections.” Yesterday the RA Police issued a statement, “The announcement is the outcome of Nikol Pashinyan’s bright imagination. He should take …

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Violations without limits

17.05.2007

During the May 12 elections of Armenian, a minimum of 450 thousand votes were falsified. This is easily proven by simple math. The calculation is very easy and the mechanism is not new for us. How long do you think a person’s voting takes? Before answering that question, let’s agree that the voting cycle starts …

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