It came out yesterday that the prosecutor’s office was going to make public videos concerning election fraud. It is certainly a good initiative and will have a big didactic and preventive impact. I don’t know whether the scenarios of those videos are ready. If not, I want to propose my version.
…Yerevan, South-Western neighborhood, 18:00 local time. The “non-partisan” chairman of the electoral district commission calls his party’s circuit headquarters and informs that “something’s wrong.” He is told to wait for further instructions. In ten minutes, Hamo of Bangladesh breaks into the electoral district, along with his bodyguards. Fortunately, he has been released once again and one can ask this hero of our time to be shot in the video. Hamo’s manly face is shot close-up. The main character takes a package of ballots out of his chest pocket with a determined gesture and stuffs them into the ballot box. The trustee of an opposition party, a 20-25-year-old slim girl, tries to object to that. Hamo calmly, but decisively refers to the chairman of the electoral district commission, “Get this whore out of here!” The skillful chairman of the commission runs out, where 50 meters away from the electoral district (as the law provides for) there is a police car. A fat lieutenant and two sergeants appear on the screen. They approach the electoral district and respectfully greet Hamo and his bodyguards. Lieutenant refers to the thin girl, “Our police station has received a call that you prevent the electoral process. Please follow us to the police station to make a written explanation of the incident details.” The girl naturally tries to oppose, but all those efforts are decisively prevented by the lieutenant, “Hush! Shut up!” after which, sergeants grab the girl under her armpits and take her out of the electoral district. However, the girl manages to call journalists before that and one of them comes to the electoral district and tries to film. Hamo prevents that attempt too, boldly exclaiming, “I will crack you on the head with that camera.” However, that threat is not carried out – bodyguards just grab the camera from the journalist’s hand, after which they leave the electoral district led by their boss. In a half-hour, Haylur crew arrives at the scene and prepares a report from the electoral district. “Everything proceeds normally, according to the law,” the chairman of the electoral district says during his interview and the Haylur journalist adds on her behalf, “Some news is put on some websites as if violations have taken place in this district; however, we referred to the Central Electoral Commission, from where we were informed that it was a wrong alert.”
If the prosecutor’s office likes my draft scenario, I can offer a few more.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
