ARFD TO TAKE PART IN ELECTIONS ALONE

14:44 04/10/2006

Armenian Revolutionary Dashnaktsutyun Federation (ARFD) is going to
participate in parliamentary elections in 2007 on its own, Deputy
Speaker of Armenian parliament, ARFD bureau member Vahan Hovhannisyan
stated on Sunday, answering questions of Voice of Armenia newspaper’s
readers. At the same time, he stressed: “It is too early to speak
about it.”

Mentioning newly-established and being established parties in Armenia,
the deputy speaker stressed: “Everyone, who regards himself as leader,
believes it to be necessary to establish a party now. That is why,
programs of majority of Armenian parties did not differentiate from
each other, and their lives are usually short.”