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PM SARGSYAN QUIZZES EDUCATION MINISTER OVER ALLEGATIONS THAT SCHOOL PRINCIPALS ARE VIOLATING CAMPAIGN LAWS
16:44, February 7, 2013
At today's cabinet session of the Armenian government, PM Tigran
Sargsyan queried Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotyan
regarding allegations that certain public school principals had
taken it upon themselves to suspend classes and send pupils to attend
campaign rallies for the incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan.
PM Sargsyan reminded Ashotyan that he had been instructed to make
sure such incidents did not occur and asked what steps had the
minister taken.
Ashotyan told PM Sargsyan that certain schools had been registered as
campaign locales for all the candidates and reminded him that there
was no law on the books forbidding pupils to attend campaign rallies
after school hours.
Ashotyan said the evidence shows that pupils and parents have been
attending to rallies of all the candidates and not only those of
President Sargsyan.
PM Sargsyan reiterated that education sector officials will be severely
punished if they violate the laws regarding election campaigning and
that the government will continue to monitor the situation.
http://hetq.am/eng/news/23108/pm-sargsyan-quizzes-education-minister-over-allegations-that-school-principals-are-violating-campaign-laws.html
From: Baghdasarian
16:44, February 7, 2013
At today's cabinet session of the Armenian government, PM Tigran
Sargsyan queried Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotyan
regarding allegations that certain public school principals had
taken it upon themselves to suspend classes and send pupils to attend
campaign rallies for the incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan.
PM Sargsyan reminded Ashotyan that he had been instructed to make
sure such incidents did not occur and asked what steps had the
minister taken.
Ashotyan told PM Sargsyan that certain schools had been registered as
campaign locales for all the candidates and reminded him that there
was no law on the books forbidding pupils to attend campaign rallies
after school hours.
Ashotyan said the evidence shows that pupils and parents have been
attending to rallies of all the candidates and not only those of
President Sargsyan.
PM Sargsyan reiterated that education sector officials will be severely
punished if they violate the laws regarding election campaigning and
that the government will continue to monitor the situation.
http://hetq.am/eng/news/23108/pm-sargsyan-quizzes-education-minister-over-allegations-that-school-principals-are-violating-campaign-laws.html
From: Baghdasarian