YEREVAN. – “A hungry man is a scoundrel. If you recall, I was saying that these [May 6 parliamentary] elections will be even more cruel,” the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress representative and Social-Democratic Hnchakyan Party member Gurgen Yeghiazaryan noted during a press conference on Thursday.  

He informed that a soldier’s mother had called him on the phone on election day and said she had written down the license plate numbers of fourteen vehicles, from which AMD 5,000 (approx. US$ 13) banknotes were being distributed in bundles.     

“The society’s 43 percent voted for the [Republican Party of Armenia] RPA because of hunger,” Gurgen Yeghiazaryan said, and noted that “in order to come out of this situation, it is necessary to fight until the end against [President] Serzh Sargsyan’s clan.”