Political scientist believes that the Armenian electors “for the first time voted rationally”

22-05-2007
Mediamax News Agency, Armenia

Yerevan, May 22. /Mediamax/. Political scientist, Director of the Caucasian Media Institute Aleksandr Iskandarian stated today that from the point of view of the international community, the parliamentary elections in Armenia were “a serious step in the direction of electoral development”.

Mediamax reports that the political scientist noted that the international observers gave a quite high assessment to the elections in Armenia, and this is of serious importance for the formation of a positive image of the country. Aleksandr Iskandarian noted that the given assessment was “especially jealously perceived by Azerbaijan”.

According to the political scientist, “it would be possible to cheat the international observers if they were assessing the political culture of Armenia, but they were assessing the technologies of the electoral process, and they were not cheated from this point of view”.

Aleksandr Iskandarian also stressed that “a serious step in the direction of development of the political system became the fact that the voting process of Armenian electors for the first time was not of mass emotional character, but a rational one”.--0--

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