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Republican Party’s Election Posters Cause A Stir in Armenia

YEREVAN—As with the other 11 registered parties in the upcoming snap elections slated for December 9, the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) launched its campaign this week by unveiling a number of billboards across the country. The RPA had recently announced its intention to run after sitting out the Yerevan Municipal poll. The vote takes place seven months after President Serzh Sargsyan was ousted from his newly acquired post of Prime Minister by the Velvet Revolution.

Most party ads have been featuring variations of a standard design displaying the candidate’s face and party logo capped with a slogan. The RPA’s posters are no different, but they have generated some controversy among Armenia’s citizens.

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Raffi Elliott

Raffi Elliott is a Canadian-Armenian political risk analyst and journalist based in Yerevan, Armenia. A former correspondent and columnist for the Armenian Weekly, his focus is socioeconomic, political, business and diplomatic issues in Armenia.

2 Comments

  1. “Yete menak es, zangir Karayin.”

    Isk vonts karogh em zangel Karayin arants herakhosi tiv@?

    That girl in the photo, reminds me too much of my former Anglo-White girlfriend.

  2. I just returned from Armenia. I had gone for a study of the garbage problem, but faced with an election fever in Armenia. I was there in February for the same study. What a change! In February everything was gray and hopeless, last week was hopeful and bright. There was life in Armenia. If Republican Party claims to have the stuff, why did not show it in twenty some years?

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