During elections in Armenia citizens voted proceeding from realistic pragmatism
Evaluation of the international observation missions during the parliamentarian elections was rather high, political scientist Director of Caucasian Media Institute Alexander Iskandaryan stated to a press conference in Yerevan. "There exists several degrees of evaluating elections, which are used in OSCE. The first degree is used in the countries with developed democratic electoral technologies, the second - in countries with obvious progress in democratization of the society. So, Armenia received the second evaluation degree. It is the maximum of what was possible to get," Iskandaryan underscored.
At the same time he noticed nobody reads reports of mission after the second paragraph and all minor violations just are passed by. "But what do we and they call violations? Armenian politicians consider bribe of voters as a violation. It is quite a normal phenomenon in the rest of the world. A real struggle for voters is on the way there. At the same time it is true that they do not offer a sack of potatoes, but say, tax cut for production, which is in fact the same thing. The voter in the West votes proceeding from realistic pragmatism. Generally during the May 12 parliamentarian elections Armenian voter did the same thing," Director of the Caucasian Media Institute said.