The Parliament deputy of the fifth convocation Tevan Poghosyan is glad that during last Parliamentary and the Council elections not only the journalists and the civil society, but also the parties understood that they also had to struggle to obtain factual information.
Within the press conference, he brought as an example the disclosure of the “Union of Informed Citizens” in the education system. According to which the known facts, that the chairman of schools, kindergartens collect votes for the government representatives, was proved by the famous record. The same did the “Yelq” block on the police system. These, according to the speaker, were the positive aspects of the recent Parliamentary and Council elections. He hoped that the facts would be noticed by the Law enforcement and the relevant legislative amendments would be done.
The opposition tripled its presence in the Council, which Tevan Poghosyan also considered to be positive noting that the percentage of the opposition recorded more than 200% of the growth in the Yerevan Council of the Elders. This, according to him, will be directed to the hot atmosphere in the Council. The opposition will come up with new and interesting initiatives, the RPA decisions will be quite difficult to claim.
The political scientist Stepan Safaryan believes, that in the elections of Yerevan Council of the Elders was expressed the temper of those part of society who made or just willingly take part in it, ” The temper of the whole Yerevan was not expressed”.
For him, the democratic elections should correspond with 2 criterions; whether the voter voted according to his free will and whether there were such factors that had an illegal influence on the procedure of the elections. According to him, neither the former nor the Parliamentary and the Council of the Elders elections matched to these two principles. Therefore, he doesn’t share the appraisal of the “Yelq”, that they fully supervised their voice and stood up for them.
He agrees with Tevan Poghosyan positive fixations, but, however, the journalists and the civil society are doing a brilliant job, he notices that in our country we have alarming amount of legal nihilism, “In the Parliamentary elections Mihran Poghosyan having serious problems at the international level, was elected, Daniel Ioannisyan was sued because he had discovered the defect in the educational system, in the case of Zaruhi, the RPA announced; do not abuse our hospitality.”
Nelly GRIGORYAN
