ArmInfo. Ohanyan-Raffi-Oskanian Bloc is not oriented with participation in Council of Elders of Yerevan elections, which are scheduled on May 15th. On April 5, the deputy chairman of the Heritage party and ORO pre-electoral bloc member Armen Martisrosyan stated in Yerevan during a press conference. According to him there is no point in participating these elections after the parliamentary one, according to him, it was not the opposition who lost, but Armenian nation.
At that, he assured that the leaders of the bloc, particularly, ex Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan is not disappointed with the defeat. ?It is not for the first time. He saw so much at the battle-field that it is impossible to break him losing the elections? the politician stated.
According to him, there were violations during the elections, however pre electoral bribes of some wining forces and black PR against them played the main role in defeat of the opposition, including ORO bloc. He noted that technical equipments used during the voting were not functioning, in some cases became additional mechanism for falsification. Moreover, he stated the necessity to learn in a detailed way the list of voted citizens, as, according his information, the list involved addresses and persons that does not exist. According to the preliminary data 1/577.323 voters from 2.588.590 participated the elections. According to the data provided, the distribution of forces is: RPA-771.247 votes or 49.12% Tsaroukyan bloc-428.965 or 27.32%, Yelk bloc 122.049 or 7.77%, ARFD 103.173 or 6.57%/ Armenian Revival-58.277 or 3.71%, ORO-32.054 or 2.07%, Congress PPA -25.957 or 1.65 %, Free Democrats - 14.746 or 0.9%, Communist Party 11.745 or 0.75 %. The ruling Republican Party will receive 55 mandates, Tsaroukyan-30, Yelk-9, and ARFD-7.