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Former Presidential Candidate: "Just the latest round of fake elections"
Sona Avagyan
http://hetq.am/eng/news/26228/former-presidential-candidate-just-the-latest-round-of-fake-elections.html
18:42, May 5, 2013
Former presidential candidate Andreas Ghoukasyan told Hetq that the
ruling Republican Party had won today's Yerevan municipal elections at
the very moment the other parties agreed to participate without any of
them disputing the right of the ruling party to take part.
`It is apparent to all that the Republican Party is involved in voter
fraud and a sponsor of corruption. Thus, when the opposition
recognizes the right of such a political force to enter the election
they have already lost,' said Ghoukasyan.
Nevertheless, Ghoukasyan said he would be exercising his right to vote
given that only when citizens defend their ballot could anything
change, adding that the authorities are doing everything to convince
citizen's that the right to vote isn't all that important.
`This is just the latest round of fake elections that are destroying
the country and leading to the loss of independence. If the people do
not attempt to change the course of events, to resist this situation
where we concede our right to vote to others, to outside forces and to
internal criminal gangs, then we will lose that value which we have
achieved historically, our independence and sovereignty,' he argued.
Sona Avagyan
http://hetq.am/eng/news/26228/former-presidential-candidate-just-the-latest-round-of-fake-elections.html
18:42, May 5, 2013
Former presidential candidate Andreas Ghoukasyan told Hetq that the
ruling Republican Party had won today's Yerevan municipal elections at
the very moment the other parties agreed to participate without any of
them disputing the right of the ruling party to take part.
`It is apparent to all that the Republican Party is involved in voter
fraud and a sponsor of corruption. Thus, when the opposition
recognizes the right of such a political force to enter the election
they have already lost,' said Ghoukasyan.
Nevertheless, Ghoukasyan said he would be exercising his right to vote
given that only when citizens defend their ballot could anything
change, adding that the authorities are doing everything to convince
citizen's that the right to vote isn't all that important.
`This is just the latest round of fake elections that are destroying
the country and leading to the loss of independence. If the people do
not attempt to change the course of events, to resist this situation
where we concede our right to vote to others, to outside forces and to
internal criminal gangs, then we will lose that value which we have
achieved historically, our independence and sovereignty,' he argued.