Election bribe and false philanthropy overshadowed the real results of the elections - Free Democrats Party.

Armenia’s Free Democrats Party issued a statement whereby it presented its evaluation of the May 6 National Assembly elections.

“The elections could have been a good foundation on the road to Armenia’s democratization and liberalization, but these elections did not meet the expectations.

The election results demonstrated that the country’s dire socioeconomic condition greatly affects the free exercising of the Armenian citizen’s right to choose, [and] the pro-government [political] parties took advantage of this. Election bribe and false philanthropy overshadowed the real results of the elections.

These elections did not record the Armenian citizen’s true will and the political forces’ real ratio at the Parliament.

Even though the actual course of the electoral process at the polling stations and the relatively equal conditions for using television broadcast during the pre-election campaign can be assessed as progress, the election violations committed outside of the polling stations have obscured the legality and legitimacy of the elections,” the Free Democrats Party’s statement reads in particular.