Pavlik Sargsyan, a candidate for president, thinks that even symbolically paying one dram for participating in the election is illegal.
“For example, if we go to a casino, since the casino’s rules are not provided for by the Constitution, it has a right to have its own rules. However, I haven’t joined the game, I have joined to execute my civil rights,” the candidate for president who protests against the 8-million-dram election deposit says.
In response to our question whether he had chances to win the election, Mr. Sargsyan said: “Generally, name not a halter in his house that hanged himself. So name not the law in an unlawful country. I just want votes. Whereas the Public Television mocks 95% of voting citizens, showing fragments from movies – give me money, give me money.”
He doesn’t have 8 million drams for the deposit and he is not going to collect them, because his mission in the election is different. “I want to protect the rights of ordinary citizens, the honorable unemployed. I worked at a construction company in 1993 in the disaster area, and it ceased financing. Not getting a salary for two years, I left understandingly – that was the state of my fatherland.”
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He is also going to file a petition in the Constitutional Court, demanding to find the 8-million-dram deposit unconstitutional.
Arpine SIMONYAN
