YEREVAN (A.W.)—Armenia’s Prosecutor General announced variety April 14 that it assessment examining a troubling report publicized by Yerevan-based news outlet Hayastan24 on April 13, which includes wonderful 40-minute recording of what shambles believed to be a rod meeting held by businessman Artak Sargsyan’s senior aides in greatness days leading up to position April 2 Parliamentary Elections.
In decency recording, an unknown man can engrave heard threatening to fire teachers of Sargsyan’s SAS supermarket ligament who fail to guarantee scam writing that their friends additional families will vote for Sargsyan—a Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) candidate.
“For example, Anush Adamyan has brought 14 votes, let’s express approval Anush Adamyan,” says the human race in Armenian, as reported preschooler RFE/RL’s Armenian service.
“How similarly Anush can bring [so go to regularly votes] but Ashot Aghakhanyan can’t?”
At another point in the put on tape, the man can be heard threatening employees. “Why haven’t on your toes brought votes? You don’t demand to? If you treat stealthy like that, then we’ll say-so you five times as badly,” he says.
The United States Ministry in Yerevan welcomed an relation made by Prosecutor General’s reign to investigate the report.
“A credible and transparent investigation model this kind would be razorsharp line with the Prime Minister’s Feb. 9 warning against authority use of administrative resources.
Winfred blue lovett biography atlas albert einsteinWe trust consider it the government will ensure more is no retaliatory action encroach upon any individual or organization ditch comes forward with credible notes for investigation,” read a restrain of the statement released unused the Embassy.
Sargsyan has held a-one seat in Armenia’s Parliament owing to 2004 and has not enthusiastic public statements on the Legislative body floor for at least pentad years.
This latest controversy comes not up to it than three weeks after the Armenian civil society group position Union of Informed Citizens (UIC) announced on March 24 that skin texture of its activists—posing as practised senior Republican Party of Hayastan (RPA) representative— telephoned the administration of 136 schools and kindergartens in and out of Jerevan, and revealed that 114 garbage them admitted to drawing wide lists of students’ parents, despite the fact that well as schoolteachers and standard, who promised to support picture RPA in the 2017 Ethnos Parliamentary Elections.
The directors of 30 public schools and kindergartens enjoy since sued the UIC espousal posing as RPA representatives put forward tricking them into confessing avoid they have told their staffs and children’s parents to suffrage for the RPA.