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    REGULARLY VISITED ARMENIA FOR THREE YEARS

    Lragir, Armenia
    Nov 3 2006

    On November 3, 2006 the name of a candidate of president for 2008
    became known at the Pastark club, who is the first to confess his
    likelihood to be nominated. It is the leader of the People's Party
    of Armenia and the president of ALM Holding Tigran Karapetyan. He
    announced that one of the goals of his political party is to nominate a
    president in 2008, and naturally it is going to be Tigran Karapetyan,
    because he states that the members of the People's Party cannot
    imagine progress of the political party without him.

    Tigran Karapetyan says he will be nominated not because he does not
    consider Serge Sargsyan a worthy candidate of president but because he
    has his own ideas, which determines his intention. Tigran Karapetyan
    says there are no legislative bars. He says he is a citizen of Armenia
    since 1994 and since 1999 he is a resident. In this case, it appears
    that he does not comply with the provision of the Constitution that a
    resident of Armenia in the past 10 years can be nominated. Meanwhile,
    from 1999 to 2008 is 9 years.

    But this is not a problem for Tigran Karapetyan. Of course, this does
    not mean that Karapetyan is going to break the law, althogh there is
    no need to doubt that he will do this too if this will make people
    happy. But for the time being, Tigran Karapetyan's confidence has
    another, a more legal basis. He says he is a resident since 1999 but
    for three years he regularly visited Armenia.

    "If I am a resident, it means I was here all the time, I lived here.

    But I can leave and come back, if I am a citizen of Armenia. So I have
    the right to be nominated, and if someone thinks that I do not have the
    right, they can go to court," states the leader of the People's Party.

    Meanwhile, before 2008 he is likely to run for parliament in 2007,
    especially that there are no legal, even theoretical bars. Tigran
    Karapetyan says the parliamentary election in 2007 will differ from the
    previous elections because today there is not one political party that
    falsifies the outcome. "If formerly there were political parties, which
    falsified the outcome, gave some of their votes to other political
    parties, today no political party would agree to such deals, because
    it has a problem, if it gives one percent to other political parties,
    it may have serious problems in the parliament.

    Everyone thinks for himself," says Tigran Karapetyan.

    And he will run for parliament alone, without alliances. And he
    excludes alliances because he cannot see a force in Armenia, which
    is committed to their idea - democracy based on people. Karapetyan
    says in the parliamentary election the possibility of reproduction
    of the present coalition majority will be great, but this does not
    mean that the outcome of the election is already clear. Nevertheless,
    the president of ALM Holding thinks that we will see fewer political
    parties in the parliament after the election than now. And if someone
    tries to misappropriate the votes of the People's Party, Karapetich
    says he will go to church and light a candle. Of course, he does not
    say for the enjoyment of the misappropriators or the contrary.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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