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“FABRICATION OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS WILL LEAD NKR TO DEATH”

Politics

“The person faking elections is considered a traitor in Armenia. Each NKR official realizes there is no need to fabricate elections as he will be called a destroyer. To fake NKR presidential elections means to lead the country to certain death,” political scientist Manvel Sargsyan, the former Advisor to the NKR President, said today.

Among the five candidates running for presidency the main rivals will be Bako Sahakyan, the head of the NKR National Security Service, and Masis Mayilyan, the Deputy Foreign Minister. The country authorities and pro-governmental forces support Bako Sahakyan.

Manvel Sargsyan notes that unlike the Republic of Armenia, there is not a profound gap between the authorities and the public in Nagorno-Karabakh.

“The 2004 elections of the Stepanakert Mayor came to prove that public influence on election processes is great.”

In case the NKR president isn’t elected by the public, the elections will affect on the Karabakh conflict format, Sargsyan says. “The problem lies in the mechanisms applied during the election. Let Bako Sahakyan become the NKR President through fair elections.”

As for the Karabakh conflict resolution, Sargsyan notes that neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan want Nagorno-Karabakh to be engaged in the negotiation process.