Armenia's ruling regime is weaker now, says Levon Zurabyan

Armenia's ruling regime cannot use the previous methods in the upcoming elections as it did in 2008, because it is weaker now than it was then, coordinator of the opposition alliance Armenian National Congress (ANC), Levon Zurabyan, says.

"The regime cannot use the previous experience as it is rather weak," Zurabyan said in an interview with the Armenian business daily Capital when asked what the ANC will do if the regime "steals the vote" in the next elections.

Zurabyan also said that the regime used to a have a strong and organized team in 2008, something it presently lacks.

"In all these spheres the regime is overthrown: there is no internal unity, nor there is a truly coordinated system. There is serious distrust among themselves for concrete individuals and the regime," Zurabyan told the paper.

Further, he said that though during Robert Kocharyan's presidency the system was as corrupt as now, it was, however, operating through heads of government agencies, while the current regime is more like a "criminal politburo," which is stronger than the government agencies.