Yesterday I received my, “dear voter’s” notice, in which my address – 110 5 St., Zovuni, Kotayk – as well as where I shall vote, was written. However, besides my notice (no. 739206), I got another notice (739207) addressed to Marie Vrezh Gevorgyan, who I don’t have the honor to be acquainted with. Being the only owner of my house for around 5 years, I assure you that no Marie lives and is registered at my house. It is interesting how she has appeared on the voters’ list.
Political forces and the police have been assuring for 3 weeks that they go from house to house, check and clean the lists. I gradually become convinced that they are all lazy people and are strong only in the verbal genre. Perhaps, they pin their hopes on the citizens who will not only look for their names on the respective lists to be sure that they are on the list, but will also examine who is registered at their addresses. However, it is not in the interest of citizens, but in the interest of political forces or the government, the police in particular, promising a “fair election.”
And parties should not talk about how the government will rig the election and how they will shake their fists when the fight is over (post-election processes, rallies etc.), but should have worked to prevent possible fraud. The government – the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), because other coalition parties don’t admit that they are in the government – should have not sworn that the election would be fair and transparent, but should have increased the faith of voters in that transparency. I suppose not only I have gotten such a notice.
8 political forces have been saying the same thing for three weeks, a few times a day – emigration, corruption, shadow economy, on the brink of the precipice etc. That energy they spent on asserting those trite ideas could have been spent on more constructive things and they could have organized people who really wanted a fair election. In my opinion, by the way, such people are the minority in Armenia, but it is an active, qualitative minority, which could have been encouraged to do useful work without shouting and offending anyone. For example, checking the lists from house to house. Since the presidential election is ahead of us, one cannot pin any particular hopes on either political forces or, naturally, the police that they will contribute to “clearing” the lists, it would be better, if a social group, which is not involved in politics like our young environmentalists, initiated that work within the upcoming one year.
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I have no doubts who Marie “living” in my house will “vote” for.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
