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Gyumri Resident: "I am not for sale, report my words to Serzh Sargsyan!"
ARMINFO
Monday, February 18, 14:22
A woman has visited GALA TV in Gyumri earlier today and brought a
photo of her ballot paper with the following sentence wrote on it:
"Tell Serzh Sargsyan that I am not for sale!" She put 5000 AMD in the
envelope of her ballot before dropping it into ballot box.
"I have never taken a bribe, but this time I did it in order this
ballot is sent to Serzh and he could see that not everyone is for
sale," she said.
The woman said that it is her protest and urged all the others who
took bribes to act in the same way as she did. The woman asked GALA
TV to follow what will happen to her ballot with 5000 AMD inside at
the polling station after voting. She said that she had 'voted' at the
school after G. Byron.
The 6th presidential election in the history of independent
post-Soviet Armenia kicked off on February 18 at 8:00am local time.
A total of 41 district election commissions and 1988 territorial
election commissions are operating in the country, with 7 commissions
being set up at penitentiaries. In line with the legislation of
Armenia, voting is possible only in the territory of the country, the
only exception is the members of diplomatic missions in abroad and
their families, who will vote online, a total of 243 people.
A total of 2 million 505,000 people have been included in the
electoral registers.
Thus, the presidential candidates are as follows: incumbent president
Serzh Sargsyan from the Republican Party and former prime minister
Hrant Bagratyan from the Liberty Party. All the remaining are self-
nominated candidates: Leader of the Union for National
Self-Determination Party Paruyr Hayrikyan, Leader of Heritage Party
Raffi Hovannisian, Advisor for Political Issues of the Refugees and
the International Law Civil Society Network, ex-foreign minister of
NKR Arman Melikyan, political expert Andrias Ghukasyan, and specialist
in epic Vardan Sedrakyan. The elections will be held on Feb 18 2013.
From: Baghdasarian
ARMINFO
Monday, February 18, 14:22
A woman has visited GALA TV in Gyumri earlier today and brought a
photo of her ballot paper with the following sentence wrote on it:
"Tell Serzh Sargsyan that I am not for sale!" She put 5000 AMD in the
envelope of her ballot before dropping it into ballot box.
"I have never taken a bribe, but this time I did it in order this
ballot is sent to Serzh and he could see that not everyone is for
sale," she said.
The woman said that it is her protest and urged all the others who
took bribes to act in the same way as she did. The woman asked GALA
TV to follow what will happen to her ballot with 5000 AMD inside at
the polling station after voting. She said that she had 'voted' at the
school after G. Byron.
The 6th presidential election in the history of independent
post-Soviet Armenia kicked off on February 18 at 8:00am local time.
A total of 41 district election commissions and 1988 territorial
election commissions are operating in the country, with 7 commissions
being set up at penitentiaries. In line with the legislation of
Armenia, voting is possible only in the territory of the country, the
only exception is the members of diplomatic missions in abroad and
their families, who will vote online, a total of 243 people.
A total of 2 million 505,000 people have been included in the
electoral registers.
Thus, the presidential candidates are as follows: incumbent president
Serzh Sargsyan from the Republican Party and former prime minister
Hrant Bagratyan from the Liberty Party. All the remaining are self-
nominated candidates: Leader of the Union for National
Self-Determination Party Paruyr Hayrikyan, Leader of Heritage Party
Raffi Hovannisian, Advisor for Political Issues of the Refugees and
the International Law Civil Society Network, ex-foreign minister of
NKR Arman Melikyan, political expert Andrias Ghukasyan, and specialist
in epic Vardan Sedrakyan. The elections will be held on Feb 18 2013.
From: Baghdasarian