YEREVAN. – The political majority in Armenia thinks it earned the unconditional trust of the people in the past elections, but we are confident that the authorities broke the electoral system, and nothing in the country is decided by elections.     

Opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party National Assembly (NA) Faction member Aghvan Vardanyan noted the aforesaid during Wednesday’s NA discussions on the government program. 

“There were two typical incidents for me in the last [capital city Yerevan Council of Elders] elections [that were conducted on May 5]. They show a footage when a ‘neighborhood guy’ had made uproar in the polling station, [but] the four persons in police uniform did not dare to restrain that ‘neighborhood guy.’       

The second footage: The journalists ask the PM [that] there are reports that election bribes are distributed. The PM says it is a lie.  

Tens of thousands of Yerevan residents received that election bribe, [and] thousands distributed [it]; that many people know what is going on. This contradiction between words and reality is the accurate description of our life,” the opposition MP maintained, in particular.