Senior members of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) on Tuesday accused the main election rival of rigging the May 6 parliamentary elections, claiming that the vote giving the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) a commanding presence in the next National Assembly does not reflect the real lineup of political forces in the country.
Addressing several thousand supporters at a public rally in Yerevan ANC member and editor of the Haykakan Zhamanak daily Nikol Pashinyan stressed, however, that the opposition bloc will not give up the seven mandates that it managed to win in the Sunday elections, narrowly clearing the seven-percent hurdle set for political blocs to enter the legislature, according to the official results. (Pashinyan is among the seven members of the opposition bloc to become a lawmaker. Meanwhile, the ANC leader, former president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who headed the bloc's proportional ticket at the elections, said he would not pick his mandate, instead letting former prime minister Hrant Bagratyan become a lawmaker).
Armenian News
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