RPA Ararat branch head: the pre electoral environment in the district is normal.
ArmInfo. "It is not good that you don't know what situation is in Ararat district now," Murad Muradyan, the candidate from the Republican Party stated. According to the information obtained by ArmInfo, his followers entered the pre electoral staff office of the other RPA candidate, the owner of Avshar and Araik Grigoryan, the brother of the district Governor, and beat his followers there.Muradyan stated that the incident was initiated by the head of local police department.
ArmInfo reporter applied to Alik Sargsyan, the RA Police Ex-Head and the head of territorial entity of the Republican Party with a request to clarify the situation in Ararat districts and to tensed relations between RPA candidates. Sargsyan ensured that the pre electoral environment in the district is tranquil and normal, there are no collisions between RPA candidates at least because the electoral race has not started yet. "If the electoral campaign has not started yet, how could candidates hold a struggle or to quarrel proceeding from something like political jealousy . "Moreover, the incident you are talking about could never happen at any pre electoral staff office, because we do not have those yet," Sargsyan mentioned.
Meanwhile, as it has been forecasted earlier, the pre electoral situation and the elections at Ararat district will be especially intensive, because the interests and the impact zones of several politicians and businessmen collide there. For instance, Argam Abrahamyan, the Artashat mayor, who is the son of the Ex Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, proposed his candidacy from the Tsaroukyan Bloc. And now, according to the sources in the closet environment of Abrahamyan, neither he nor his followers will stop trying to cut as much votes from Republican Party as possible.
In response to that, the Republican Party of Armenia mobilized against Abrahamyan and Co his heavy artillery represented by businessmen Araik Grigoryan, Murad Muradyan and Ex Police Head Alik Sargsyan, which is appointed at the position of Ararat District branch head. But, as it has been mentioned before, the pre electoral emotions in Ararat and other districts are increasing not among v authorities and opposition candidates, but between candidates of RPA.