They should be worried about document theft
Member of the "Heritage" party Armen Martirosyan blames the Armenian authorities' ineffective work for the "Millennium Challenges" corporation's slash in funding to Armenia.
"We lost the chance to get funds with no interest rates during the current economic crisis. The authorities placed their personal interests above the rest. If that weren't the case, we wouldn't have political prisoners, fraudulent elections and assaults against journalists," said Martirosyan.
According to him, the mayor elections were not the reason for the slash in funding, but the 2008 fraudulent presidential elections and the events of March 1.
Stepan Safaryan recalled that the U.S. State Department was not the only one that evaluated the elections in Armenia and that it would be right if the evaluations were given on time.
"Heritage" members believe that the Armenian authorities must do everything possible to release all political prisoners, including the NA deputies, before the PACE summer session. Stepan Safaryan finds that the authorities especially have to worry about the disbanding of the Fact-Finding Group and the fact that some documents were stolen.
Why didn't "Heritage" participate in the Yerevan mayor elections? In response Safaryan said:
"We served the interests of the public at large and that was bigger than "Heritage"'s electorate. They demanded a united opposition, but we didn't unite and the people are not to blame for that."
