Ruling Republican Party candidate Hakob Hakobyan, stated today that he does not accept the victory of the declared winner, Sedrak (the General) Saroyan, an independent candidate running in the single mandate race from Election District 19.

Hakobyan says that he supplied local police with specific names of bribe givers and takers one day before the election but that they did nothing in response.

“They were even handing out bribes from parked cars during the election. Those guys had a buch of passports with them. People would pick up their passports from them before going to the polls. We have the video tape of all this,” Hakobyan said, adding that the bribes amounted to 10,000 AMD.

Hakobyan says he went to church that morning to pray for those Armenians who are so in need that they were forced to take the money.