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    Emil Lazarian
  • 4 years ago
    • Categories: 2021

During local elections authorities suffered defeat in places where they had claimed victories – opposition lawmaker

Panorama, Armenia
Dec 6 2021

The best assessment of the local elections held in Armenia on Sunday was given by Nikol Pashinyan himself, who actually admitted that the rulingCivic Contract party had failed, opposition lawmaker from ‘Armenia’ bloc Artur Khachatryan told a briefing in parliament. In the words of Khachatryan, Pashinyan was trying to justify the defeat by their busy activities around external challenges. 

The MP remarked that authorities were denying the case of vote-buying, however, both in yesterday’s and previous local elections the state was quite generous in offering social assistance to residents of the same communities which couldn’t come as a coincidence. 

Moreover, per Khachaturian, authorities mobilized all administrative resources prior to and during the elections, yet they lost the elections in 15 communities out of 36.   

He reminded that opposition forces can gain majority in  Council of elders of 8 communities and in 13 if they form coalitions. In total, the opposition can theoretically get control of the power in 21 communities, he added.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS