“I rely on our Constitutional Court”: Aram Manukyan (video)
On April 14 Armenian National Congress-People’s Party of Armenia (Congress-HZhK) will apply to the Constitutional Court to recognize the results of the NA elections invalid, “Do you doubt objectivity of Gagik Harutyunyan? I do not doubt and have never doubted. I am sure that the CC will make a fair decision; I have grounds. By and large that person is the only elected vice president in our history- first, last and only. So I rely on our CC and expect just decision for the Republic of Armenia,” at the briefing with journalists in the NA said ironically Aram Manukyan, secretary of Armenian National Congress faction. The alliance has thousands of facts on breaches. Though they don’t believe that the CC will make an unbiased decision, the alliance considers itself obliged to apply to that body, “We have always applied to the CC, when the results of the elections were rigged. Not only we need it, history needs it, future generations need it, future political and civil powers need it.” He thinks that what happened on April 2 wasn’t an election, but the victory of the authorities over their own people. “It was a firework of destroying own people, it was a feast, and the authorities can boast that they destroyed the RA citizen. It was genocide against a citizen’s vote; they destroyed the so called electoral system; it was trade and the authorities took their share. And speaking of political election is meaningless here.” Unlike all previous nationwide elections, this time no post-election process happened; even the winning opposition admitted the results of the elections, “The citizen was withdrawn from the people, the backbone, which is the axis of people and citizens was removed and those voiceless citizens became a tool for the authorities for voting for them. There is no other explanation. That’s why those hungry, miserable, voiceless citizens cannot take to the streets.” According to Aram Manukyan, widespread poverty especially in the regions broke the citizens, “On next day in all the shops 10 000 AMD notes were given for buying bread, matsun, pasta. For the people that 10 000 AMD was salvation for several days. The condition of the stomach, poverty, buying medicine for children or not paying utility fees became so widespread that it is the best tool of the authorities. Other countries also used this method, other dictators, and destroyed their own country.” As for future plans of Congress-HZhK alliance, Aram Manukyan noted that hereafter the number one political topic will be the peace conception proposed by the RA First President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, towards which they will work actively.
