Armenia: No policies, but plenty of perks

Posted 4 May 2009 13:04 GMT

Countries	Armenia
Topics	Arts & Culture, Elections, Youth, Politics
Languages	English

Armenia

The Caucasian Knot, the blog of Global Voices Online's Caucasus editor posts an account, photographs and video of yesterdays pre-election campaign rally by the governmental Prosperous Armenia political party. The blog notes that back yards were asphalted just hours before the meeting and a free concert appeared to replace offering the electorate any actual policies in the party's bid to have their candidate become mayor.

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