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    "SERZH SARGSYAN DIDN'T KEEP AND COULDN'T HAVE KEPT HIS CAMPAIGN PROMISE," SAKUNTS SAYS

    http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/11/27/134687/
    NOVEMBER 27, 2012 16:45

    "The 2008 presidential election will confirm that improving the
    electoral processes and conducting democratic elections in Armenia
    are already a tradition," this is an excerpt from President of the
    Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan's election program.

    Analyzing the situation five years after that, can we claim that the
    President of the Republic of Armenia kept his promise? www.aravot.am
    asked a set of experts dealing with electoral processes this question.

    Artur Sakunts, the manager of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor
    Office, noted during a conversation with us that Serzh Sargsyan should
    have first of all assessed the 2008 presidential election, which he
    didn't do. Then he went into detail: "If he promised that, and it
    was in his election program, then considering the 2008 election, he
    didn't keep his promise, because not only did he not take any attitude,
    but he also considered it normal that he governed as a result of that
    election. After that, the election for community leader took place
    in Yerevan, which was a disgrace. I was in the electoral district of
    Malatia-Sebastia as an observer, it was just total pressure on voters,
    fraud, ballot stuffing etc. Or Nikol Pashinyan's no. 10 electoral
    district in 2010, where we carried out monitoring again - there were
    violations, pressure and fraud here again. It happened during Serzh
    Sargsyan's presidency. Manifestations of aggressiveness, pressure,
    also during the latest parliamentary election, in the electoral
    district where Samvel Alexanyan was nominated and in other electoral
    districts, the spread of fraud during the election campaign and on the
    election day.... Although violence was not like the violence during
    the election for the Yerevan council, but the problem of using the
    administrative resource wasn't overcome in any election. There was an
    inappropriate response to alerts of election bribes; an investigation
    was not conducted."

    Enumerating the above-mentioned, A. Sakunts stated: "This long
    observation allows me to claim and reason that Serzh Sargsyan didn't
    kept and couldn't have kept his promise, since one should first of
    all have fully assessed the 2008 presidential election. Prisoners
    of conscience who are free not thanks to justice, but as a result of
    amendments to the amnesty law existed during his very presidency."

    Harutyun Hambardzumyan, the head of the Choice is Yours NGO, stated:
    "I wouldn't say that the president kept or not kept his promise by
    100 percent. But it is a fact that we made progress in this election
    compared to the previous one. The progress is that the flagrant
    violations that took place in the past - for example, ballot stuffing,
    violating the rights of observers and proxies, fights in electoral
    districts - yes, they happened, but were not so wide-spread. Those
    happened in the electoral districts of Malatia-Sebastia and Spitak,
    but if we analyze 1960 electoral districts, they account for a small
    percentage."

    Tatev HARUTYUNYAN

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