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It is authorities and not the citizens that should be accused in  bribery. 

It is authorities and not the citizens that should be accused in  bribery. 

ArmInfo. It is not the citizens that should be accused  in  vicious practice of pre-electoral bribery, but the authorities that put their nationals in such beggar  conditions. This is  stated in the Article of Levon Ter-Petrosyan,  entitled as "Dangerous Pre Electoral Flows", published at iLur.am.

He thinks that pre electoral bribes had  serious impact on the  elections results, because those were of a mass character. Within  this, the politician thinks that it is not right to accuse citizens  in  electoral falsifications.  "That is authorities fall," Ter  Petrosyan insists. 

 "In democratic countries the results of elections are preconditioned  not by administrative resource, not by rich or poor people, but the  middle class. But this middle class is totally destroyed in Armenia.  The country is in hands of corrupted officials, monopolist  entrepreneurs  and law enforcement entities. And the nationals having   a daily need for piece of bread and overloaded with loan repayments  could not resist the bribe temptation, " the politician mentioned.  Ter-Petrosyan  expresses his surprise how the nation that could hold  a struggle against Soviet despotism, was brought down to knees in 20  years. 

 To remind, earlier the bloc spread the application, stating that the  elections were followed with massive distribution of pre electoral  bribes, illegal gathering of passports and national identification  cards, inactivity of law- enforcement officials. Besides, as the  application's authors think, a terror was observed towards people  during the elections, using administrative resource and implementing  crime for massive pressure to citizens' will expression. "Artificial  gathering of people was observed at the polling stations, which is  against the points of the current legislation. Besides, the principle  of secret voting was also violated, including open and controlling  voting using colored and numbered papers. Repeated voting cases were  also observed, violence to journalists, proxies and observers.

To  remind, parliamentary elections took place in Armenia on April 2,  and this was first elections after the 2015 Constitutional reforms in  Armenia, in accordance to which Armenia gets to the Parliamentary  model of administration.

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