“I don’t know Mkhoyan myself, but I can surely say that it cannot have anything to do with the Armenian National Congress (ANC), there is only one party that can do such things in the republic – it is the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA),” Gurgen Yeghiazaryan, a representative of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP), assured during a conversation with www.aravot.am, talking about the incident that had happened to Meruzhan Mkhoyan, a candidate for MP who had been beaten up and had withdrawn his candidacy from no. 21 electoral district a few days before, “Something has happened. I don’t think that someone from Belarus or the United States has come and beaten up Mkhoyan to force him to withdraw his candidacy.”
Mr. Yeghiazaryan explained what had happened to Mkhoyan in this manner, taking into account that Mkhoyan’s rivals in the same – no. 21 – electoral district were representatives of the ANC and the RPA.
Talking about his rivals in no. 27 electoral district – representatives of the RPA and the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) – he assured that he had absolute advantage over them and not only in terms of height and age, “As opposed to them, I have never been a part of this establishment, therefore, I easily talk today. There are villagers living in extreme poverty in my electoral district and if I am asked how the villagers have reached that condition, I will answer they have brought the villagers to that condition.”
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