Gas price hike pulverized election bribe
Vice Chairman of the opposition Heritage party, Armen Martirosyan blames the Armenian National Congress (ANC) for diverting the opposition electorate.
"For many years the ANC was trying to make the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) an opposition as a result of which many voters voted for the PAP considering it an opposition. While, after the elections, PAP Leader Gagik Tsarukyan did not say that the PAP is not an opposition but said it could not be an opposition. It was a frank approach but it should have been announced earlier.
Similarly, the ANC should not have done it, though it might have had its interests in it," said Martirosyan.
Asked what the Barev Yerevan bloc was going to do in the newly-elected City Council, the Heritage official said, "We shall try to reduce the kickbacks. If opposition took seats in the City Council in 2009-2013 it would have been possible to save kickbacks in the amount of $200 million."
Speaking about the hike in tariffs for natural gas in Armenia, Armen Martirosyan said if people knew about the pending increase in gas prices before the election they would not take election bribe or would not vote for the bribers realizing that the money would be pulverized.
"The raise in the blue fuel will create the deepest tensed social-economic condition in Armenia," the Heritage representative said in conclusion.
