The main opposition candidate in Nagorno-Karabakh's upcoming presidential election on Monday warned the authorities there to ensure its freedom and fairness, saying that vote rigging would be tantamount to high treason.
"I call on our authorities to refrain from fraud and do everything to hold free and fair elections because that is our future," Vitali Balasanian told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am).
Balasanian warned that if Karabakh's current ethnic Armenian leaders fail to hold a democratic vote they will place themselves alongside "traitors" who he said had assisted in the territory's incorporation into Soviet Azerbaijan. "They would end up on the list of traitors in Armenian history," he said.
Armenian News
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