DASHNAKTSUTYUN WILL HAVE ITS CANDIDATE FOR THE RA PRESIDENT

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[06:33 pm] 12 September, 2006

The Party Dashnaktsutyun (Armenian Revolutionary Ferderation) will
actively participate in the parliamentary elections.

They are going "to cooperate with other political powers but without
any alliances or blocs." The question of the RA president’s candidate
will be decided in the next Supreme Assembly after considering the
results of parliamentary elections.

Armen Rustamyan, newly appointed member of the Party’s Supreme Body,
claims that they will observe whether parliamentary elections are
vulnerable or not and then view whether their voice might be decisive
for the country’s future.

At present, Dashnaktsutyun intends to participate in the presidential
elections with its own candidate. "We see certain problems and only our
candidate can guarantee their solution." This is why Hrant Margaryan,
member of the party, announced that their party will not support
Serge Sargsyan.

Armen Rustamyan attaches great importance to the exclusion of
non-political powers in political life and advises all political
powers to realize their threat.

Mr. Rustamyan maintains the integration of their party into Coalition
was justified but he complains of lingering progress connected with
corruption combat and poverty recovery. Dashnaktsutyun emphasises
just and fair elections and condemns violence (mainly intimidation
of journalists) in all its forms.

Dashnaktsutyun hasn’t got any news on Shahen Hovasapyan’s murder,
who was a member of their party and high-rank tax official. Armen
Rustamyan doesn’t exclude that they may demand the resignation of
the chief of police, if the hearings of the case are postponed.