“Aravot” stands by its view that the individuals arrested in connection with the March 2008 violence in Yerevan are “political prisoners” that were prosecuted for “crimes that they did not commit.” “Speaking of the last [municipal] elections, it is impossible not to notice that some of the political prisoners were kept in jail so that vote rigging could be done more smoothly,” editorializes the paper. “For example, Hakob Hakobian could have resisted, to a certain extent, the attacks on polling stations launched by oligarchic militants.”
“Hayk” quotes some of the members of a special parliamentary commission on the March 2008 events as saying that the anticipated general amnesty will not extend to those individuals who would be held directly responsible for the deaths of ten people in the post-election clashes. “So it can be concluded that the amnesty will not apply to those who killed the ten people on March 1 and those who ordered them to open fire” says the opposition daily. “So Robert Kocharian and other persons responsible for March 1 will not be able to take a sigh of relief.”
“Unfortunately, many do not understand the difference between elections and life, between coming to power and working,” writes “Hayots Ashkhar.” “That difference is enormous. If you are to come to power as a result of elections, tens of thousands of people need to vote for you and at the same time do what you want, while life requires you to do what they want to every day, every hour.”
“The elections in the capital have made Serzh Sarkisian’s authority more monolithic,” writes “Kapital.” “In the political sense, the existence of the [governing] coalition has become meaningless. The obvious supremacy of the Republican Party (HHK) in the last elections, Dashnaktsutyun’s departure from the coalition, Orinats Yerkir’s last fiasco have engendered the need to review the format of the authority. More specifically, the Republican Party’s relations with Prosperous Armenia need a clarification … The authority’s being monolithic gives Serzh Sarkisian’s team a larger room for maneuver but also increases its responsibility.”
Deputy parliament speaker Samvel Nikoyan assures “Iravunk” that the May 31 elections in Yerevan were free and fair. Nikoyan at the same time chides Levon Sargsian, a fellow parliament deputy from the HHK, for his involvement in one of the violent incidents that marred the polls.
(Aghasi Yenokian)
“Hayk” quotes some of the members of a special parliamentary commission on the March 2008 events as saying that the anticipated general amnesty will not extend to those individuals who would be held directly responsible for the deaths of ten people in the post-election clashes. “So it can be concluded that the amnesty will not apply to those who killed the ten people on March 1 and those who ordered them to open fire” says the opposition daily. “So Robert Kocharian and other persons responsible for March 1 will not be able to take a sigh of relief.”
“Unfortunately, many do not understand the difference between elections and life, between coming to power and working,” writes “Hayots Ashkhar.” “That difference is enormous. If you are to come to power as a result of elections, tens of thousands of people need to vote for you and at the same time do what you want, while life requires you to do what they want to every day, every hour.”
“The elections in the capital have made Serzh Sarkisian’s authority more monolithic,” writes “Kapital.” “In the political sense, the existence of the [governing] coalition has become meaningless. The obvious supremacy of the Republican Party (HHK) in the last elections, Dashnaktsutyun’s departure from the coalition, Orinats Yerkir’s last fiasco have engendered the need to review the format of the authority. More specifically, the Republican Party’s relations with Prosperous Armenia need a clarification … The authority’s being monolithic gives Serzh Sarkisian’s team a larger room for maneuver but also increases its responsibility.”
Deputy parliament speaker Samvel Nikoyan assures “Iravunk” that the May 31 elections in Yerevan were free and fair. Nikoyan at the same time chides Levon Sargsian, a fellow parliament deputy from the HHK, for his involvement in one of the violent incidents that marred the polls.
(Aghasi Yenokian)