14:17 . 30/04
Tension is increasing as May 6 is approaching. Summing up the past weeks of the pre-election campaign, today the coordinator of ARF-D campaign Aghvan Vardanyan expressed hope that the rules of a civilised competition will be observed before the election and after it.
“We haven’t come out to a last battle,” the politician said.
He noted the guided opinion polls as one of the peculiarities of the campaign: it is attempted to create an atmosphere not corresponding to the real picture.
“They also conducted opinion polls during the previous elections and said ARF-D would get 5-5,5% of votes. But ARF-D got 12% of votes. There is a group of people, that has these opportunities and enjoys doing such things,” Aghvan Vardanyan said.
Recently they are also trying to find disagreements between the first persons and ordinary members of ARF-D. The ARD representative reminded it is impossible to split the members and the leadership of ARF-D.
“ARF-D has proved that it is a united organization and it is a team,” the speaker said.
He also informed that in the 4th election district ARF-D supports the editor-in-chief of the “168 Hours” newspaper Satik Seyranyan. In the news conference Aghvan Vardanyan spoke about the absence of the political debate. No debate took place because of the authority representatives’ refusal.
“No one attempted to prove its programme is good through open, public debate. We did it and haven’t still received any response. Each citizen has the right to listen to debates. This is the way in civilized countries. ARF-D wishes us also to become a civilized country. But perhaps many prefer to ensure votes by the help of village heads, community heads and the police, or by distributing something rather than to give the voters an opportunity to base their choice on the parties’ prorammes,” Aghvan Vardanyan said.
