Expert: voters will cheat Orinats Yerkir just the same as it did in 2008

PanARMENIAN.Net - Political expert Karen Kocharyan believes all political forces will employ electoral bribes during the upcoming parliamentary elections in May, the rate depending on their resources.

Orinats Yerkir will become the only party voters will never cast ballot for, even if they are bribed to do so, Kocharyan told journalists mockingly.

“Voters will cheat Orinats Yerkir just the same as it cheated them in 2008,” he said.

He also stressed the fact that two candidates of Orinats Yerkir failed the local self-government elections on February 12 in Shirak region which traditionally used to back the party.

Another political expert Armen Badalyan named Orinats Yerkir a “dead party” declaring it will never make it into the next parliament.

Orinats Yerkir leader Arthur Baghdasaryan who ran for the 2008 presidential elections as an opposition candidate came 3rd with his votes. Following the elections, he supported Serzh Sargsyan while his party joined the coalition. Afterwards Armenian media spread the rumor that the authorities had either bought Baghdasaryan, or he just played the part of the “opposition candidate” from the very beginning.