ALP DECISION SURPRISED CHAIRMAN
Interviewer Lena Badelyan

A1+
[07:37 pm] 29 March, 2007

It was a great surprise for everyone when ALPP did not present the
required documents to the CEC, thus failing to participate in the
upcoming elections. It was impossible to figure out the reason for
it. ALP chairman Hovhannes Hovhannisyan gave an interview to ‘A1+’:

– We have made our minds not to defeat utterly and gather in the 5th
polling station only. My oppositional friends will support me; some
parties have already announced about it. A model of a uni-candidacy
may be formed, the existence of which will be decisive and stressful.

– Is the party going to endorse anybody’s candidacy?

– Of course it will. We’ll give additional information: we will either
support one party or several. They will certainly be our counterparts
from the opposition.

– Wasn’t your decision a surprise for the political bodies? For
instance, it was a surprise for Mass Media.

– I think so. It was a surprise for me, too. It is a matter of ideas
and values. I don’t know how right the decision is but we hope it
will give its positive yields.

– There is a hypothesis that you couldn’t solve the caution of 2,5
mln. drams and the latter hindered you to run for the proportional
system.

-Of course not. We do not have much resources but we had enough to
run for the elections. You see, we were very categoric and serious
about it.

– Were the other 27 candidates supportive to you?

– Yes, yes and yes. Of course, some people wanted to try and go
through the elections but everybody was concordant. It is not my own
but a common decision.
From: Baghdasarian