I was in Stepanavan yesterday and saw how warmly the residents greeted our candidate Arsen Gevorgyan. The authorities also see this and understand that the chances of the opposition winning in local government elections are much greater. "Strong Armenia" faction deputy Arega Hovsepyan announced this in a conversation with journalists on October 21. According to him, the actions of the authorities are the manifestation of that fear, because they believe that in order to establish their sole power in Armenia, they should resort to all anti-democratic methods. Hovsepyan clarified that the authorities are afraid of the victory of the opposition in that community. He informed that the faction of the "Strong Armenia" alliance will go to Stepanava after the session to support their citizens. "The authorities are once again spreading an atmosphere of fear and terrorizing their own citizens, trying to falsify the elections again. The same thing happened on the eve of this year's parliamentary elections, when the members and supporters of the "Strong Armenia" alliance were massively detained and arrested, and then they were released," the deputy emphasized. Calling it an attempt to disrupt the opposition's activities. He noted that the authorities already have the experience of publishing edited recordings and thus making the opposition guilty. According to him, moreover, most of the persons accused of various acts on the basis of those recordings have been released. "Therefore, we have serious grounds to doubt what is being published today