Another opposition candidate has been detained ahead of the local government elections

ArmInfo. This morning, just one day before the local government elections, representatives of the opposition alliance "Our Community" were detained in Martuni, including the candidate for the post of community head, RPA council member Aram Karapetyan. Henrikh Danielyan, head of the youth wing of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), announced this on his Facebook page.

He called such actions classic political persecution, political repression, and a method of intimidating the opposition.

Being an opposition member is not a crime, and fair elections cannot take place under political pressure and an atmosphere of fear. This is the real picture of those very "free, fair, and equal" elections. elections, the danger of which we have repeatedly stated.

Electoral fraud, political inequality, and abuse of administrative resources have become the main tools of the current government's political practice.

Without a solid foundation of public trust, the government is attempting to achieve its political objectives through the security forces, exploiting the state system to maintain its own power. Political competition should be determined by the people's vote, not by the intervention of security forces," he wrote.

It should be noted that earlier today it was reported that Artur Astoyan, candidate for head of the Artik community from the opposition party "Country for Life," had been detained.