Karen Avagyan wasn’t lucky
“At first, I tried to erase the stamp with an ordinary facial tissue, I couldn’t. Then I tried with a facial tissue dipped in water. Unfortunately, I wasn’t successful. I used a wet wipe, I wasn’t lucky again. I wanted to use acetone, women opposed. Acetone is better for manicures. My last hope was acid…,” a Facebook status update of Karen Avagyan, a member of the National Assembly and a member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) council and executive body, read. At the end of the status update he advised: “Use acid during elections… to ensure the acid balance.” www.aravot.am inquired of the RPA MP why the stamp didn’t vanish
only in the RPA members’ passports, perhaps there was special ink for the RPA members. Karen Avagyan reminded about the statement of the police that citizens should not employ any means to erase the stamp or the signature from passports, to make any changes. “The information is so funny that one should have responded this way. It is the same as to cut a page of the passport with scissors and be surprised that it can be cut,” the RPA MP said, adding that the idea of erasing the stamp from the passport occurs to people who “look for a hair in an egg.” Karen Avagyan also added: “Many of our opponents turn everything into such clownishness that they can show their participation or activity only using such things.” As for manifold alerts about election fraud, our interlocutor said: “I wouldn’t say manifold, since you cannot put forward grounded facts with names and addresses. Those are mainly statements. If there is a fact, the ministries responsible for that issue have hotlines, and they give respective responses to any reports. If there is a fact, the respective bodies trace it.”
Nelly GRIGORYAN
