“You know, I don’t insist that the elections of ours have been fair, honest, I question another thing, people want a president, but another one wins because of deceit. Now when I look at people, I don’t see that they want to vote for Raffi Hovhannisyan or LevonTer-Petrosyan but they are imposed to give vote to the PAP or ARP.”- said the head of National Democratic Union party Vazgen Manukyan in the interview with Aravot daily.
To the observation of the paper that there were deceits in elections, but international agencies didn’t fix anything, Vazgen Manukyan answered. “I see that if everything went very clear, there would be a difference of 2-3%. But you see what is going on in the field. Were the votes given to PAP votes of people? There were swags, which is a crime to me, but people took the money and votes for this or that candidate. Even if no money was spent during the last week, the results would be the same. People don’t say that they voted for PAP for money, they say GagikTsarukyan can save Armenia, he is powerful and kind.”
To the question of the daily whether the society has become so senseless, Manukyan answered. “When you repeat the same for several times, the society adopts it. I will say so, the elections of this year corresponded to today’s society. In 95-96 people were still full of will to struggle, but they were suppressed, they got disappointed and gradually got used to it.”
