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Only Serzh Sargsyan's election headquarters operate in Vanadzor and Ijevan
Sat, 02/16/2013 - 19:44
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`The presidential elections have been actually depreciated' today
during the meeting with journalists said the head of the Vanadzor
Office of Helsinki Civil Assembly Arthur Saqunts.
`In the course of the election campaign the citizens and especially
schoolchildren were forced to participate in the meetings with the
incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan, destroying the education process.
There was an abuse of administrative resources' said A. Saqunts.
According to him, calls are being received from the headquarters of
Serzh Sargsyan and without presenting themselves the people ask who
they plan to vote for. 70 percent of the schools are members of the
Republican Party, which means that there was a de facto
"republicaniation" before the elections, and to the question of why
they are doing the observation, Saqunts said that their observation is
done for recording.
Cases were registered when the posters of the presidential candidate
Serzh Sargsyan were spotted in the places not specially allocated for
that, the posters were noticed on the shops in Ijevan.
Summing up the results of January 21 to February 21 HCA observation
Saqunts noted that during the election campaign the election
headquarters of only Serzh Sargyan were operating in Vanadzor and
Ijevan and presenting the calls received from the residents Saqunts
said that financial means were distributed which is prohibited by law.
`Those elections cannot be compared with the ones of 2008 where there
was a competition, and now beside the incumbent president Serzh
Sargsyan everybody entered the elections unprepared' said Saqunts
adding that in 2008 the public attention and participation was higher.
Currently, the issue is to assure the participation of more than half
of the population in the election's, because according to him the
participation will be very low, event though many resources were used;
in this case it is not important whether the votes will be for or
against.
Author:
Factinfo
Sat, 02/16/2013 - 19:44
News
PanARMENIAN Photo
`The presidential elections have been actually depreciated' today
during the meeting with journalists said the head of the Vanadzor
Office of Helsinki Civil Assembly Arthur Saqunts.
`In the course of the election campaign the citizens and especially
schoolchildren were forced to participate in the meetings with the
incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan, destroying the education process.
There was an abuse of administrative resources' said A. Saqunts.
According to him, calls are being received from the headquarters of
Serzh Sargsyan and without presenting themselves the people ask who
they plan to vote for. 70 percent of the schools are members of the
Republican Party, which means that there was a de facto
"republicaniation" before the elections, and to the question of why
they are doing the observation, Saqunts said that their observation is
done for recording.
Cases were registered when the posters of the presidential candidate
Serzh Sargsyan were spotted in the places not specially allocated for
that, the posters were noticed on the shops in Ijevan.
Summing up the results of January 21 to February 21 HCA observation
Saqunts noted that during the election campaign the election
headquarters of only Serzh Sargyan were operating in Vanadzor and
Ijevan and presenting the calls received from the residents Saqunts
said that financial means were distributed which is prohibited by law.
`Those elections cannot be compared with the ones of 2008 where there
was a competition, and now beside the incumbent president Serzh
Sargsyan everybody entered the elections unprepared' said Saqunts
adding that in 2008 the public attention and participation was higher.
Currently, the issue is to assure the participation of more than half
of the population in the election's, because according to him the
participation will be very low, event though many resources were used;
in this case it is not important whether the votes will be for or
against.
Author:
Factinfo