HANRAPETUTIUN PARTY NEGOTIATES ON NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR DEPUTY COORDINATED BY OPPOSITION FORCES
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Feb 19 2007
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 19, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Currently the
Hanrapetutiun (Republic) Party conducts intensive consultations
with almost all opposition forces on nomination of candidates by
majoritarian system and on running for the parliamentary elections
by a united proportional list. Suren Sureniants, member of Party’s
Political Board, said this to Noyan Tapan correspondent. "If the
opposition political forces come to an agreement on nomination of
candidates by majoritarian system and on running for the parliamentary
elections by a united proportional list, the "center of gravity" will
be created, the consolidation around which will inevitably result in
qualitative changes in the country," he said. In his words, there
can be even more than one such "centers of gravity" (if opposition
forces fail to create one united front, there can be several such
fronts). Sureniants said that Hanrapetutiun attaches importance
to reaching an agreement over the idea of nominating opposition’s
common candidates at all of 41 electoral districts. "At that, by
saying common candidates we mean first of all parties’ first figures,
the nomination of which we consider as very important," he said. He
stated that the results of consultations will be summarized within
the coming week for each party to be able to specify the way of its
participation in the elections. Sureniants said that if Hanrapetutiun
does not reach an agreement with their opposition colleagues, it
will run for the elections independently. Sureniants also stated
that the Armenian National Movement (ANM) Party and Hanrapetutiun
have many ideological and political communities. "We can state that
we cooperate with ANM, but whether an alliance will be made or not –
time will show this," Sureniants mentioned. In his words, Hanrapetutiun
is going to take part in the rally to be organized on February 20
in Yerevan’s Liberty Square on the initiative of the Alternative
public-political movement. Sureniants said that Hanrapetutiun Party
Chairman Aram Sargsian who has been in U.S. for already a week will
return to Yerevan on February 20. In Washington A. Sargsian had
meetings at U.S. Department of State, visited the Armenian Assembly
and the Millennium Challenges Corporation, made a speech during the
seminar organized by the Carnegie Fund.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
