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ARF NOMINATES NO CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENCY
Lusine Vasilyan
"Radiolur"
17:34 26.12.2012
The Armenian Revolutionary federation will not nominate a candidate
at the presidential elections scheduled for February 18, 2013. It
won't support the candidate nominated by the authorities and will
follow the developments and will not boycott the elections.
There are four reasons that have made the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation refuse from participating in the elections, ARF
representatives told a press conference today.
"The first reason is the nature of the elections. The political
relations are in the shadow, and we have not managed to change this,"
Secretary of the ARF faction Aghvan Vardanyan said.
The second reason is the failure to form a united opposition front
and nominate a single candidate.
"Participation in the predetermined elections would mean being part
of a ready-made scenario, while we have said on many occasions we do
no play the game of others and are never guided by the scenario of
others," he said.
Finally, Dashnaktsutyun is confident that its' not only elections
that provide the parties with an opportunity to present their own
approaches.
The decision not to nominate its own candidate does not mean ARF
withdraws from the electoral processes. According to Armen Rustamyan,
this will allow the AR to be more unbiased.
"Therefore, this does not mean our political activity is coming to an
end. On the contrary, we'll be trying to ensure that the electrical
processes develop in the right direction," he said.
Lusine Vasilyan
"Radiolur"
17:34 26.12.2012
The Armenian Revolutionary federation will not nominate a candidate
at the presidential elections scheduled for February 18, 2013. It
won't support the candidate nominated by the authorities and will
follow the developments and will not boycott the elections.
There are four reasons that have made the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation refuse from participating in the elections, ARF
representatives told a press conference today.
"The first reason is the nature of the elections. The political
relations are in the shadow, and we have not managed to change this,"
Secretary of the ARF faction Aghvan Vardanyan said.
The second reason is the failure to form a united opposition front
and nominate a single candidate.
"Participation in the predetermined elections would mean being part
of a ready-made scenario, while we have said on many occasions we do
no play the game of others and are never guided by the scenario of
others," he said.
Finally, Dashnaktsutyun is confident that its' not only elections
that provide the parties with an opportunity to present their own
approaches.
The decision not to nominate its own candidate does not mean ARF
withdraws from the electoral processes. According to Armen Rustamyan,
this will allow the AR to be more unbiased.
"Therefore, this does not mean our political activity is coming to an
end. On the contrary, we'll be trying to ensure that the electrical
processes develop in the right direction," he said.