Expert: many people ready to vote for electoral bribeMay 7, 2012 - 16:07 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Information technology expert Samvel Martirosyan commented on May 7 on numerous cases of electoral bribing during the May 6 parliamentary voting. “It is painful to see that large share of population is ready to vote for an electoral bribe; furthermore, they would be afraid to vote for someone else,” expert told a press conference in Yerevan. “This means that 20 years later a referendum on surrendering Zangezour to Azerbaijan may be held, and we might give it for a jam, with such population,” he said. Martirosyan also slammed statements of opposition leaders who urged people to take the bribe and then vote for another political force. “I don’t know what else can be said, when top politicians say – go and commit a crime, then another one,” the expert said reminding that taking a bribe is a criminal offence. I do not want to throw mud at the whole country, but we appear to be a state of bribers from top to down,” he declared. For his part, information security expert Tigran Kocharyan mentioned that despite mass electoral bribes, very few reports came about specific case of bribery. “We should teach people that roof renovation or another AMD 10000 will not change their future,” he said. Top stories President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. Partner news | Russia accuses West of preparing invasion of CSTO countries NATO is preparing an invasion of the CSTO countries, the number of provocations in the air is growing, Sergei Shoigu has said. Armenia: Rescue workers restore pedestrian bridge for flood-hit community Rescue workers on Wednesday, June 5 restored a pedestrian bridge in the town of Alaverdi in Armenia’s north. U.S. “deeply troubled” by Azerbaijan's arrest of civil society members The United States is deeply troubled by the continued arrest of members of Azerbaijani civil society, Matthew Miller has said. Turkey condemns Uruguay’s recognition of Armenian Genocide Turkey has condemned a newly passed law in Uruguay that recognizes the Armenian Genocide, TRT reports. |