– Mr. Khachatryan, you have declared that you will go on holiday when the campaign is launched and will be engaged in Sashik Sargsyan’s propaganda who is nominated in the 37th electoral district by majority electoral system. The campaign will be officially launched on Monday, are you on holiday?
– No, I’m not, Maxim Hakobyan, the chief of his headquarters, will work for him.
– Won’t you be engaged in propaganda?
– Why must I be engaged in propaganda, I’m engaged in my business?
– Won’t you try to assure your compatriots?
– There is no problem for persuasion, everybody is persuaded, whom must I persuade, and both the people and candidate are from Syunik?
– What about next candidate, Samvel Harutiunyan?
– People decide, the part of them will vote for Samvel, the other part will vote Sargsyan Sashik, do you see elections for the first time?
– But you are known as an active participant of elections, will you be passive this time?
– Why must I be passive? I’ll have an active participation.
– In your opinion, how much votes will The Republicans get from your region?
– People will decide it, I am not a fortune-teller and can tell how much votes people will give in a day, the day will come, votes will be counted, then you’ll phone and I’ll tell you how many votes have been given to Republican.
– As a governor, how many votes do you expect?
– What questions do you ask, I tell you the day will come and you will know.
– How do you mark Serge Sargsyan’s new appointment in the post of prime minister, in your opinion, what kind of PM will he be?
– He will be a strong PM, he was assisting Andranik Margaryan and don’t you see that everything will be very good.
– You must say it; you work with him and you will know it better.
– Serge Sargsyan is a concrete, objective person, he solves every question objectively, or if it is impossible he doesn’t delay and says immediately that the problem has no solution.
– In your opinion, why was the Gyumry mayor assassinated?
– I can’t give remarks, the law enforcement services will give the answer, I think they are seriously engaged in that problem, what can I say, that action is condemnatory, it’s a hooliganism.
– Such accidents occur every time but no murder or murderous assault is detected.
– Why isn’t, there have been many cases which have been detected and the rest will also be detected.
– Opposition political forces will come to Syunik region within the framework of pre-electoral parliamentary campaign.
– We’ll receive everyone, we don’t have any problem
– As you “received” Vazgen Manukyan?
– There was no Vazgen Manukyan’s case, it was invented. He was received at the hotel free, fed and the fee wasn’t taken from him. It isn’t true as if he has been arranged beforehand about the place of meeting.
– Now if we make a call to Vazgen Manukyan, he will affirm the opposite.
– Why do you make a call to Vazgen Manukyan, make it to those with whom he has been arranged and you’ll see that it is falsehood.
– Are the oppositionist in your region active or aren’t?
– They are active.
– Won’t you prevent opposition’s meetings?
– Why must we prevent, we’ll give the squares and halls in case of rain.
– In your opinion, why did Samvel Babayan refuse of participation in N37 polling station at the last moment?
– Ask him, I don’t know, he hasn’t conferred with me.
– Do you consider “Prosperous Armenia” as a rival for Republican?
– It will be obvious on May 12, I promised you, didn’t I? I will make a call to you first and say how many votes each party has got in Syunik. People must decide, I don’t want to decide in the name of people.
– You say that people will decide but you are known in the region as a famous electoral falsifier.
– I am not a falsifier, I have been elected as a parliamentarian by majority electoral system for three times, there has never been any complaint.
– There is information in our newspaper that your brother was trying to rape a girl in a shop, is it true?
– Why do you print such things, it isn’t true.
– Why didn’t you deny then?
– Why do you slander people, you have yourselves invented that story, nothing like it has happened.