“As the Russians say, после драки кулаками не машут (what’s done cannot be undone), but factually Serzh is to remain. Don’t you even think that he will give up his position!” two residents of Ashtarak who had come to a meeting with Raffi Hovhannisyan would debate in Ashtarak yesterday. In response to a question of www.aravot.am whether she believed in victory, one of them, Amalya Galstyan, said that she would believe, if all the people rose up. In response to a question whether she would go to the rally tomorrow, she said: “On these feet… if there is a car, I will. If there isn’t, how will I go? I hardly walk. Goddamn him. If he had shame, he would have resigned.” In response to our question whether she didn’t believe that there would be a change of power, the woman said: “Serzh won’t allow them to carry out a change of power, now will he? Serzh, Serzh’s brother…. Wolves are in office. Tigran Karapetyan…. All are their dogs. The cognac factory is his; Mika is his. Serzh’s brother has levied a tax on the people; poor youth don’t want to marry. They say that if they get married, he will come and demand a tax; he will say: ‘I want to sleep with your wife once too.’” Another resident of Ashtarak assured: “Serzh handed out money and won. No one else voted for him. That is the truth. If there was a really fair election, Raffi Hovhannisyan would win. Serzh won only with bribes, nothing else.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
