YEREVAN, MARCH 26, NOYAN TAPAN. "If being elected Mayor I am ready to be both master and servant for Yerevan residents," Tigran Karapetian, the Chairman of the People's Party, stated at the March 26 press conference. Providing guarantees for Yerevan residents' ownership, living rights is among his program provisions. "The Mayor should not only think of rubbish as it is today," the PP Chairman said. According to T. Karapetian, he is an alternative in the May 31 Yerevan Council of Elders elections. "I am an alternative to the opposite principle "who is not with us is against us," to these bad laws that will never change unless people like me make part of power," he said. According to T. Karapetian's prediction, on the threshold of elections the power resources will unite and try to work for the RPA candidate. In that respect, according to him, any political force, pro-governmental, opposition, and people's, taking part of the elections has its exact electorate. T. Karapetian considers that the possibility of OYP's winning the elections is equal to zero. "No matter who heads their list, a Bolshevik or a Menshevik. If the people did not like him it will never like, as one can deceive the people at least once," T. Karapetian said. According to the PP Chairman, it is much more difficult to commit electoral violations in Yerevan, as capital's residents are socially more secure, therefore are more free and independent in expressing their opinion. In his words, by appointing Gagik Beglarian Mayor, the authorities gave him a possibility to consolidate its resources. However, according to T. Karapetian, "moments come when it becomes impossible to jump above one's head." And, according to him, in this case Yerevan residents can be persons of principle and "not play into authorities' hands."

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