Although the authorities say the upcoming Constitutional referendum will be unique and voters will feel no pressure, ArmInfo still receives alarms: employees of many state-funded educational and medical establishments to complain of being pressed to vote "for" the Constitutional referendum.
For instance, parents of the pupils from the secondary schools in Ararat region (the village is not named at the request of parents) say the school principal and the village head "strongly recommend" the residents to support the Constitutional amendments, "as many programs are currently being implemented in the village and there are many pending issues that will find a solution if the villagers vote 'for' the amendments." "We were told that the amendments will be passed anyway, and it is better to vote 'for' them and the village will gain from it too," one of the parents says.
Earlier, it was reported that another village school principal in the Ararat region collected the voters' signatures in favor of the amendments.
On Nov 28, the medical workers of the Second Medical Center of Yerevan that belongs to General Seyran Saroyan, who is a parliamentarian too, were demanded to vote in favor of the amendments. Similar alarms have been received from other medical establishments too.
