Elections in Armenia... A real democracy or soviet heritage of buying of votes?

On Sunday we'll follow another presidential elections in Armenia. The last one took place in 2008 and the current president Serge Sarkissian (Republican Party) is the favorite. This party has already the majority in the Parliament, leaving the Prosperous Armenian Party (of the multimillionaire Gaguik Tsarukian) the second place.

This country is suffering economical consequences due to the closure of it's borders with Turkey and Azerbaijan, and in this elections, 131 seats are being disputed not only for the Republican and Prosperous Armenian Party, but also for the opposition, National Armenian Congress, which arguees that this elections has a lack of transparency, with lots of buying votes. This argument had it's consequences in 2008 too, with 10 victims because of the protests against the current government party.

Some international observers say there's nothing wrong in procedures until now, but they're still waiting for the results.

Buying votes is a giant enemy for democracy, mainly in these countries, with large history of communism. Sadly almost all the countries that once were a part of the Soviet Union have this kind of problems, and that's why it's a cause for concern.

Anyway, now we only have to wait until Sunday....