Statement of S. Sargsyan’s Headquarters was a “Show”, while his Campaign a “Theatre of Neron Era”
14:15, February 1, 2013 | News | Electoral Rights
“It is more of a show”, human rights activist Avetik Ishkhanyan gave such an estimate in an interview with Aravot.am over the statement of RA President S. Sargsyan’s central electoral headquarters disseminated yesterday. By the statement they called on the public to report passport data collection cases to the headquarters upon their occurrence. Av. Ishkhanyan provided details: “For some purposes passport data can be collected only by the supporters of candidates that have government levers. Hence, doubt is cast over the sincerity of those condemnations, since I don’t think the supporters of the government candidates are unaware of the working methods of their supporters on site. It is more of a demonstrative statement than a true concern.”
Chairman of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor also doesn’t believe in the sincerity of concerns of the disseminated statement. In a discourse with us he got agitated, “Yesterday everybody was mandatorily taken to a meeting with Serzh Sargsyan in Vanadzor, but hardly had he made a 15-minute speech, when most of the audience left the hall. What sincerity can we talk about? Schools, kindergartens, all of them were mandatorily taken to the meeting. It wasn’t that people were hustling and killing each other to run to a meeting with Serzh Sargsyan, he hadn’t been missed much. After all this I am being inquired about sincerity. It is all about evident lies and deception. They as if spread misinformation over their persistent struggles but they carry out the management of violations and they are in charge of violations.”
Referring to the election campaign of RA President, Sakunts noted: “It is a pre-election meeting held in the scopes of methods typical of Soviet Union propaganda. Forcefully escorting people in order to provide a mob scene for the King to make a speech and have everyone applaud. It is a typical theater from Neron era, when he spoke nonsense and everybody applauded, because of a soldier guarding at every row.”