“That they gave us 7% is real testimony to the fact that the regime can write any number it wants with mathematical accuracy. Let me explain why they gave us 7%, although we had 30%-35% support. Because, you know, there was no difficulty for the regime to lower our percentage by some half percent, and we wouldn’t have been elected to the parliament. I mean, if they had given us 6.5%. Why did they give us 7? For a simple reason, because the international community clearly said to this government after 5 years of the Congress’s struggle that if the Congress was not elected to the parliament, they would not recognize the election as democratic. The government and the international community cut such deals. They claimed just that 7%, and the government gave that 7% to reinforce its legitimacy.
“And in this case, there was no international pressure, because local elections are not attached too much importance to by the international community,” this is how Levon
Zurabyan explained why the government had given them 7 seats in the parliament and none in the city council. In this regard, Galust Sahakyan, a deputy leader of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), explained during a conversation with www.aravot.am today that Levon Zurabyan was quite right. “Levon Zurabyan is right that we made no contribution to the creation of that 7-member group. The internationals made a contribution.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
