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“Aravot” editorializes on the Sunday local elections in several districts of Yerevan: “Now it is finally clear that a district mayor is an important post in Armenia, so important that it is worth spilling blood for it. Otherwise, it would be unclear while Albert Yeritsian, a businessman with quite a positive image, had decided to enter the fray revealing that he, too, has gangs and brigades of thugs just like any wealthy man in our country who respects himself.”

“Hraparak” writes that “every new election drives people into despair” and asks: “Why should there be a situation when a voter feel humiliated every time his vote is stolen by someone he deems unworthy?”

And “Hayk” suggests that while “they shoot at a whole people after national elections, during local elections it is possible to stab one of the candidates’ proxies with a knife.”

In an interview with “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” member of the governing Republican Party’s faction in parliament Artak Davtian says: “We have several new district mayors [in Yerevan], elections are a constantly improving process. Not everything will be brought into an ideal state with just one gasp.”

Heritage party leader and member of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Raffi Hovannisian, who had decided not to participation in the PACE sittings, explains to “Hayots Ashkhar”: “I am ready to participate but only as a representative of a country that not only realizes its national interest and seeks solutions with its neighbors, but also ensures the level of democracy that is needed not for Europe but for the Republic of Armenia.”

American-Armenian analyst Richard Giragosian tells “Zhamanak Yerevan” regarding the visit of the Turkish president to Armenia: “Having domestic tensions, facing lack of trust and legitimacy inside the country, [President] Serzh Sarkisian is seeking victories outside.”

U.S. citizen Melissa Brown, who is the wife of ex-foreign minister Alexander Arzumanian, tells “Aravot” the fact that a judge in Armenia can authorize the wiretapping of her telephone used by her husband and then write about her personal life shows the methods that the authorities are using in their work. “What justice can we talk about, it is just a show,” Brown says, calling it KGB-style methods.

“Haykakan Zhamanak” writes that despite the fact that Parliament Speaker Tigran Torosian stated that he would not resign “because the post of the Parliament Speaker is not that of a shopkeeper to do whatever you want and whenever you want”, the Republican Party’s executive committee decided to consider Torosian’s further staying in the post “unadvisable.”

And to “Hayots Ashkhar’s” question whether Torosian would obey the decision, Republican Party parliamentary faction member Hamlet Harutiunian replies: “Discipline within the party is the most importance thing for the party. Any party member who refuses to obey the decision of the party has to be prepared to take the consequences.”
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