Raffi Hovannisian: I feel obliged to return the stolen victory to you (video)
Addressing voters in Armenia’s Gyumri city, Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, a parliamentary election candidate of the ORO alliance, called on the locals to vote in the April 2 elections ‘staying in harmony with their conscience.’ “They [candidates from other forces] come and promise to build roads and have your homes connected to natural gas supply. My dear friends, it is all a hoax, empty pledges. We all need a fair and decent country, where gas and roads will be built on their own,” he said. Another candidate of the bloc called for sobriety to those citizens who had refused to provide electricity to the alliance. “We're going to win sooner or later. We shall win because we are right, we are moral and we are young. The youth always win in the end. Tomorrow they will come and flatter us, but we shall not receive them,” said Vahagn Hovhannisyan. Leader of the Heritage party Raffi Hovannisian who defeated Serzh Sargsyan in Armenia's second largest city of Gyumri in the 2013 presidential elections, said ‘this time the opposition will not be defeated.’ As an ordinary citizen, I feel obliged to return the stolen victory to you together with my colleagues,” he said. Mr Hovannisian says Armenia can become a leader in the region in all areas, but we need to take steps in that direction. “We need to destroy this single-party system. He [Serzh Sargsyan] knows about it because he bears the responsibility for this criminal policy, starting from deprivation of property to vote rigging, from poverty to migration,” he said.
