Pre electoral Armenia: Campaign participants increase voters bribery  charges

ArmInfo.The fight for the position in Armenian Parliament is becoming tense with elections coming closer,  and while  the opposition forces express activization of populist oratory, than blocs claiming for efficient number of chairs parties come to  effective methods, active use of administrative resources, including,  as media has multiply stated,  police and enforcement entities, as  well as leaders of educative institutions.

However, the most efficient method of implication to Armenian voter  is pre electoral bribery, and ruling forces know that well. At that,  with the elections coming closer  the charges of pre electoral bribes  are increasing with geometrical progression, increasing from 5  thousand AMD to 25 thousand AMD. Within the growth  of pre electoral  bribery the methods of control are being shrewd for the "viable" use  of them. 

According to media, Akob Beglaryan( brother of former Minister of  Transport and Relations Gagik Beglaryan), the lawmaker candidate of  RPA supporters, suggest voters bribery at 15 thousand AMD in Centre  community, stressing that this is rather high 'price for their votes'  compared to their opponents suggested bribery.

However, the representatives of the candidate, as 'honest citizens'  warn 'greedy voters' immediately that there is not such thing as a  free lunch, and in order to 'deserve' 15 thousand AMD is necessary to  pass 'certain procedures', particularly early in the morning at  one  of the headquarters of the candidate, where the voter will  be   presented  the 'evidences' that online  voting process is being  observed by the headquarter employees. In other words, as one of the  residents of Center community informed media, wanted to remain  unanimous due to  obvious reasons, Beglaryan's supporters assured him  that hidden cameras are installed in some electoral headquarters,  that are connected to the computers of pre electoral headquarters of  the candidate,  aimed at observing the voting process online.

It is possible that the conversations on such informal 'secret video  recorders' have bullying effect and even those who are not tend to  believe the existence of this kind of perfect control mechanism, but  is not indifferent to free money, prudently will vote in a 'proper'  way according to  the agreement with local authorities, coming as  supporters of this or that candidate. The current race for pre  electoral bribery is developed at secondary  electoral regions  (Arabkir, Davitashen), where Artak Sarkisyan( SAS Artak, owner of the  same line of supermarkets), Arthur Gevorkyan ( son-in-law of the  Police Commandant Armank Babloyan, son of Armenian Parliament Speaker  Galust Sahakyan ,Arman Sahakyan (the head of state property  department) - candidates well known by  Armenian public

As one of the local residents told ArmInfo, also wanted to remain  unknown, the representatives of practically all lawmaker candidates  'knocked their doors' suggesting bribery. "For Babloyan's son  suggested less than 10 thousand AMD",  he complained  adding that  Gagik Mkheyan suggested the higher twice sum, the son of ex MP from  Orinats Yerkir Party, who is the son-in-law of the lawmaker candidate  of the Republican Party of Armenia Hovhannes Sofolyan. "He suggested  20 thousand AMD for a vote to RPA. But the most generous turned Artak  Sarksyan. His supporters suggested 25 thousand AMD," she clarified.  At that , noting that the compulsory condition of all the candidates  was that early in the morning of elections day,  "voter-conformists"  will be taken to the headquarters by special cars, and on the road  they will be informed about relevant instructions, not concretizing  what kind of instructions, and how the 'right' result of the voting  will be controlled.