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    BOTH INDIVIDUAL AND PARTY-LIST ELECTION SYSTEMS BLIGHTED BY BRIBERY

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    01-10-2004

    On Friday, Dashnaktsutyun party member Armen Rustamyan, speaking at a
    news conference in Armenpress news agency, explained why his party
    supports the idea of the idea of filling National Assembly's all seats
    only through party lists.


    `All of us witnessed how those candidates running for
    parliamentaryseats in individual races won the election thanks to
    bribes', he said.

    Our correspondent asked him wasn't he aware of cases of so called
    auction in that system of election. Hasn't he heard that the seat in
    the list cost from 200 to 500 thousand USD? `We know all about that',
    the answer was.

    Rustamyan's fellow partisan Levon Lazarian added: `If a party tries
    to come to parliament with such kind of peoples, it will have its
    rating fallen by the next elections'.

    Levon Lazarian is sure party-list parliamentary election system will
    promote political field development. It is worth to be reminded that
    Dashnaks were giving gas meters to voters in their office during
    election campaign at thelast elections.
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