June 1, 2009 - 21:19 AMT
Opposition holds meeting near Matenadaran
Today, about 07:00 p.m., Armenian National Congress (ANC) started a meeting in Yerevan, with the participation of around 5 thousand people. In his speech delivered near Matenadaran institute of ancient manuscripts, ANC coordinator Levon Zourabyan announced that Yerevan would today be full of flags had the victory been real. "Armenian authorities have managed to create a totalitarian system of vote count. The possess accurate data on the persons selling their votes and the prices offered. The entire state-government system has one objective - to falsify elections," he said.

Zourabyan also said their party had been warned against interfering in elections. But ANC finds elections to be the only way for making people's voice heard by political forces. "A leading political force should always conduct its battle while being close to people. We have considerable achievements; we were able make an advance steps towards elaborating election mechanisms, and we'll need that in future" Zourabyan added. Opposition activist believes authorities have this time managed to impose their rules on ANC. Anyway, he expressed confidence of winning the final battle.