"Bandit attack"
"We cannot call the May 31 disgrace an election. It was a bandit attack on polling stations," HAK's senior representative Vahagn Khachatryan announced on June 3.
"The election finally marred the City Hall. The latter's legitimacy wasn't questioned until now as the mayor was appointed and not elective.
The authorities proved that they are not going to yield the power to others. Surely, we need a government overthrow but only in a constitutional way," adds Mr. Khachatryan.
The HAK representative notes that different mechanisms were applied during the Sunday vote - carousel, stuffing, drawing, violence, intimidation, threats, etc.
HAK's proponents were even prohibited to come up to polling stations.
"The most striking is that the police were standing a few steps away and didn't interfere. Both proxies and observers saw policemen in civil clothes participating in the election rigging."
Vahagn Khachatryan states that HAK's supporters, proxies, Heritage party members, who complain of large-scale election frauds, are being persecuted.
"You know that the Office of the Prosecutor General has brought a case against polling station #8. The case involves written complaints by our supporters. The bandit group started a chase against them.
On May 31 HAK's main concern was to ensure the security of its proxies and supporters at poling stations 7 and 8.
I saw middle-age people crying after the vote as their dignity was harmed."
According to Mr. Khachatryan HAK has demanded to announce the election results at the aforesaid polling stations invalid.
"The observers' assessment of the Yerevan mayoral election is quite logical as they stayed at polling stations about 3-4 minutes. They left immediately after dropping in," says Mr. Khachatryan.
During the election he asked observers how they would behave if such an election were conducted in their country. "Surely, we wouldn't accept the results of the election. Moreover, we would take our word to the street," answered the observers.
