LEVON TER-PETROSYAN MAY RUN FOR PRESIDENCY IN 2008

Yerevan, October 20. ArmInfo. First president of Armenia Levon
Ter-Petrosyan will run for presidency in 2008, said Ararat Zurabyan,
Chairman of the Armenian National Movement (ANM) party Board, at the
Discussion Clob "Pastark."

He made a slip in speaking: "it is by personal opinion." A. Zurabyan
thinks participating in the presidential election, L. Ter-Petrosyan
will "radically change the situation of disorder reigning the country
at present." He noted that if L. Ter-Petrosyan refuses to run for
presidency, ANM will advance its candidate for presidency. For
instance, the candidature of Babken Ararktsyan, the former speaker
of the Armenian parliament.

Levon Ter-Petrosyan was elected president of Armenia in 1991. In
1996, he was officially declared the winner of the presidential
elections that were called rigged by many international authoritative
organizations and the country’s opposition. In the February of 1998,
L. Ter-Petrosyan resigned under pressure of some influential political
forces. Since then, he refuses to give interviews to the media. He
"appears in public" twice or trice in a year at official receptions
and congresses of the party.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress