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    TIGRAN KARAPETYAN - HAK SHOULDN'T TAKE SEATS IN CITY COUNCIL
    Astghik Khachatryan

    http://hetq.am/en/society/tkarapetyan -7/
    2009/06/01 | 15:31

    Important Society

    Tigran Karapetyan, leader of the People's Party, stated to "Hetq"
    that the results of yesterday's municipal elections do not reflect
    reality. His party only received 2.14% of the vote according to
    official results.

    "I'm not talking about my party's votes. I'm referring to the elections
    process. The voting must be voluntary but they are directed with
    bribes and fraud," he stated.

    He claimed that all were responsible for the situation, but most
    especially the regime. "They literally brought the votes to the
    polling stations. The regime isn't worthy of those votes."

    Mr. Karapetyan also criticized the statement of the head of the
    Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities that
    declared the vote to be in line with European standards. He said
    that the international monitors probably visited only a few polling
    stations were the vote proceeded normally. "They should have gone to
    the Zatikyan School, to P.S. #39, to see what was going on."

    Mr. Karapetyan said that he would call a press conference tomorrow
    to protest the election and that the People's Party would chart its
    future course of action in an upcoming congress. He said that the
    party did not intend to contest the election results in court since
    it would be a waste of time.

    He added that if he represented the HAK (Armenian National Congress)
    he would not take seats won in the Yerevan City Council and that he
    expected HAK to so the same.
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