NUMBER OF ARFD’S VOTES AT FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS DEPENDS ON NUMBER OF EXPECTED FALSIFICATIONS, ARMEN RUSTAMIAN CONSIDERS

Noyan Tapan
Feb 22 2007

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. ARFD’s preelectoral proportional
list will be published until March 3. Armen Rustamian, representative
of ARFD Armenian Supreme Body, declared this at the February 22 press
conference. He said that party’s renowned figures are included in
that list. As A. Rustamian forecast, as a growth of indices of votes
– from 8% to 11%, received by ARFD was registered at the previous
two parliamentary elections, at the forthcoming elections they also
expect growth of votes given for them. In his words, the indices to be
registered by ARFD to some extent depend on the number of expected
falsifications. A. Rustamian said that electoral falsifications
"flourish" especially in case of majoritarian system, therefore ARFD
will nominate few candidates by majoritarian system.

Meanwhile A. Rustamian said that "the number of breathless
ballot-papers is not electorate yet:" electorate is the people who
accept Dashnaktsutiun’s ideas and come to vote. In his words, today
ARFD has 7 thousand members in Armenia, who in case of the respective
appeal will come to the square, while parties having hundreds of
thousands of members cannot gather even 0.1% of this number.