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Low intellect will become MP with money

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"Show me one or two intellectuals elected by majoritarian order," said Vice-Chairman of the "Heritage" Party Ruben Hakobyan during today's debate devoted to the Armenian National Congress's (HAK) demand to alienate the NA majoritarian order from the electoral process.

"There are parties that are ashamed of including the names of such people in their lists of proportional candidates. They think that they will discredit them and that is why they include them in the majoritarian lists," said Ruben Hakobyan.

However, Republican Hovhannes Sahakyan says the lack of a candidate's intellect is not a reason for the elections to be held through a 100 percent proportional order. "The political forces are underdeveloped," said Sahakyan.

Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) representative Naira Zohrabyan said the first thing to do was to hold free, fair and transparent elections since a corrupt society "won't get anything out of the 100 percent proportional order that the oppositionists demand".

She assured that there were parties in Armenia that will take the "adequate sum" from the candidate with low intellect and will include that candidate in the proportional lists.

Dashnak Armen Rustamyan shared Zohrabyan's view. "There has to be at least one democratic election. How can we know which election was democratic when there is change of power?" Rustamyan asked rhetorically. According to him, elections held in a democratic country can't provide the opportunity for change of power."

Ruben Hakobyan said the main reason for emigration was the falsified elections. "Nobody will stay in this country after another election like that," Ruben Hakobyan predicted.