ALM TV COMPANY CHAIRMAN TIGRAN KARAPETIAN TO TAKE PART BOTH IN PARLIAMENTARY AND IN PRESIDENT’S ELECTIONS

Noyan Tapan
Dec 25 2006

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 25, NOYAN TAPAN. Tigran Karapetian, the People’s
Party Chairman, the ALM TV company Chairman will present his
candidature at the 2008 president’s elections. More, as T.Karapetian
stated at the December 22 meeting with journalists at the "Urbat"
club, his party wants to take part in all the elections and make a
part of the authorities, moreover, it will not make an alliance with
any political force at the coming parliamentary elections.

"There are many issues which gave us anxiety, and that’s why we know
that if we are among the authorities, we shall find our role and
place and shall say what we have to say," the ALM TV company Chairman
assured. In his words, to implement his charity initiative, he spent
about 7 mln dollars during the last 5 years, when half a million
dollars are enough to become a deputy. "Those numbers are not public
ones, but everybody knows," he said and added that his goal is to be
loved and accepted by the people. The People’s Party head considers
wrong giving management of a number of most important structures to
the private sector: "One must not only have a goal to deliver the
budget from expenses and to privatize every expensive sphere," he
said. In T.Karapetian’s words, the goal of ones making investments in
Armenia is not "long-term working," but getting superprofit. Responding
the question on criticisms concerning filling the broadcast with bad
music, the ALM TV company Chairman mentioned: "Have I ever said that
the children are very good ones. There are both good and bad ones
among them. Let’s brisk up the people, villages where a child does
not know what Yerevan is." In his opinion, the TV company headed by
him was awarded Quality Gold Crown at the International Quality Crown
Awards competition recently held in London. In T.Karapetian’s words,
Armenia was represented at that competition for the first time.