YEREVAN. - The election campaign and elections are already illegitimate, cases of law violations being registered throughout the country and unequal conditions being created for parties.
Head of the election headquarters of Ohanyan-Raffi-Oskanian (ORO) bloc, Armen Martirosyan, who is also the Deputy Chairman of Heritage Party, told the aforementioned at the meeting with voters in Metsamor town on Saturday.
He also recalled that the Union of Informed Citizens NGO on Friday published information, which shed light on the illegal activity of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and the fact of abusing the administrative resource by them. It was in particular revealed that the directors of 100 schools and kindergartens drew up special lists of voters in favor of the ruling party.
In Martirosyan’s words, the information published by the NGO showed that not only schools and kindergartens appeared to have been engaged in the pre-election processes but also the entire system, including the self-government bodies, since the school principals handed the list of people, who will vote for the RPA, exactly to them.
“Abuse of administrative resources is taking place everywhere—in the village administration, regional administration, ministries, schools, kindergartens, medical institutions, as well as all state institutions and many large private companies. If the international community declares these elections legitimate, it will be evident that they are acting hand in hand with the Armenian authorities,” Martirosyan said, adding that 10 percent of what happened here was found out in European countries and if such violations were registered there in a few schools alone, the registration of the party responsible for all that would be annulled.
He also added that the fact that these violations were found out by an NGO and not the police or National Security Service (NSS) first of all proves that the latter do not fulfill their functions.
Among other violations committed within the framework of the pre-election campaign, Martirosyan pointed out to the attack on the members of his bloc, shootouts registered in several towns, as well as the arrest of former Karabakh defense minister Samvel Babayan.
