Fair elections today mean change in power - NSU chairman Paruyr Hayrikyan.

Fair elections today mean change in power, and if the elections are not held fairly, a crisis will begin in Armenia, National Self-Determination Union (NSU) Chairman Paruyr Hayrikyan stated during a press conference on Thursday.

In his words, today’s battle is waged for being close to the authorities’ trough, and there is neither a program toward, nor an executor of, reforms in the country.

Hayrikyan is convinced that if fair elections are conducted, or even if the authorities’ levers are put to use, the authorities cannot receive more than 41 percent of the votes, and this means a coalition would be formed.

And if the authorities decide to rig the elections, as per Paruyr Hayrikyan, they will leave power some time thereafter.

According to NSU Chairman, the forming of blocs is very important today. And it is only in this case that it would be possible to garner 51 percent of the votes. Otherwise, Hayrikyan argued that Armenia’s First President—and now the opposition Armenian National Congress leader—Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s fate in 1998 will repeat.