As a country, where you can’t express your complains anywhere else than independent media and social networks I’ll share with you few thoughts of mine… About this quasi-elections in Armenia… Here… 
We’ll have our Parliamentary elections on May 6, 2012… Well, they should be parliamentary elections, but I guess these elections are more alike circus than elections…
I’m not gonna tell you about absurd pre-election campaigns, about crazy tells the candidates were telling their potential voters, the Utopian dreams and promises they were giving to the left and to the right, the incredible increases they were planning for our economy, the diplomatic renaissance they would bring to Armenia etc…
I’ll just tell you about the last few (being more exact 3) days before the D-Day…
So, let’s start with a small introduction:
Of course, all the candidates and parties left their main pre-election meetings and gatherings to these last days… The most important, critical, decision making days… So, you can just imagine what a hurly-burly is now in the capital of Armenia… Yerevan… There are thousands of policemen, hundreds of police cars and hundreds of groups of people walking in the streets with stupid faces…
And now let’s get to the main topics… The meetings… The gatherings…
First of all, I’d like to tell you about the places of the gatherings…
The place… Why they’ve chosen the most center, important and business oriented places to hold their meetings? Can you imagine what stress is this for Yerevan traffic which already extremely suffers because of brainless and incompetent drivers… ? The main Republic Square, Freedom Square, Mashtots Avenue, Sayat Nova street, Abovyan street, Amiryan street, Nalbandyan street, Zakiyan street, Khorenatsi street, Tumanyan street… All these main, important and crowded streets are blocked for already two days… Nobody can drive or walk through these streets… There are no parking places available even if you live in one of these streets… The downtown is completely paralyzed…
I couldn’t park my car for almost an hour and a half by myself… Then, after parking it hell knows where, I had to walk under the rain to my office to finish my working day…
Republic Square looks like the worst restaurant with low-quality shitty music playing so loudly, that all the business offices and business centers next to Republic Square have to try to concentrate and work under this noise…
Freedom Square: well, things are a little bit better here… People have possibility to sit with comfort in the cafes around and listen to their favorite “candidate”…
Charles Aznavour Square at Moscow Cinema: saying in one word – terrible!!! From one side there is noise from Freedom Square gathering, from the other side there’s noise from Republic Square… You can imagine how should the “candidate” shout so that the voters would be able to hear…
But the most impact from these gatherings is spread on the simple people living around the mentioned streets… People who would have to listen and see all this stir these days…
Unfortunately I don’t have any visual material at the moment, but I promise to update this post with visuals if I manage to take some photos…
The only thing I can share with you, is a funny demotivator created by me
The City Changes…
with elections…
This much for the moment…
And of course, culmination:
I HATE THESE ELECTIONS… !!!
