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Flour, Surgeries on Cataract, Boxes of Chocolate as Election Bribe and Dead Men as Voters

April 11,2012 13:52

City of  Yerevan, Community of Ajapnyak, Polling Station No. 6/34, Address: 15 Nazarbekyan St., Apt. 1, Voter: Hambardzum Yurik Hambardzumyan, Born 17.08.1962, Passed Away.

The Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) provides medical services and hands out medication and flour to the villagers of regions as election bribe. The voting list of the village of Arevashogh, district of Spitak, region of Lori, Republic of Armenia, is put up not on the polling station, but on the election headquarters of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA).

In some regions included in no. 40 electoral district of the region of Tavush boxes of chocolate have been handed out to the residents on behalf of Mikayel Vardanyan, current MP elected from the given district. There was also an April 7 postcard written on behalf of Vardanyan along with festive sweets. However, they didn’t forget to put the pre-election program of Marine Margaryan, a candidate nominated in no. 40 electoral district, in the festive bag. M. Murabyan is the CEO of International Masis Tabak company; she is non-partisan and nominated by the RPA. Mikayel Vardanyan has stated many times about endorsing her.

Before the first rally of the RPA election campaign, on the occasion of Serzh Sargsyan’s visit, the marketplace in the vicinity of Sasuntsi Davit Station was closed all day.

The Prosperous Armenia Party “supports” villagers in regions with medication, also gives money for surgeries on eye cataract that is not denied by Telman Nazaryan, the head of the National Union of Beekeepers NGO, either. These are only a few of 100 alerts sent by citizens to www.iditord.am website. IDITORD initiative offers an opportunity to citizens to communicate violations they have noticed by phone or online. Samvel Martirosyan, the head of the Pluralist Information Institute, stated, “This mechanism offers an opportunity to citizen to appear as an observer. The alert is also placed on the map and it becomes clear from which region or which administrative district of the capital it has come from. The location, where the violation has taken place, is also shown on the map.” Mr. Martirosyan recapped that the majority of alerts so far had referred to voting lists and election bribery.

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