Past daily of Armenia writes as follows, in particular: The last local self-government bodies’ [(LSB)] elections [in Armenia] were held in an exceptionally tense, unequal, and unprecedented environment of pressure.

In the situation created as a result of the total pressure exerted, targeted arrests, constant use of administrative resources and artificial obstacles by the authorities, the ruling power, by and large, managed to achieve that in many communities the CC [i.e. Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract Party] ran in the elections by itself.

Against this oppressive background, the majority of the territorial organizations of the opposition field, naturally, avoided running [in these elections]—knowing that under the existing conditions its local resource must wage an unequal struggle against the state press machine.

Nevertheless, there were communities where opposition parties ran [in the elections] (...).

Let us add that LSB elections are expected also in a number of other communities in the near future, on November 29 (...).