WITH ARBITRARINESS REPUBLICANS STAND A GOOD CHANCE
Lragir, Armenia
July 17 2007
What are the chances that the Republican Party will win the
presidential election? On July 17 the reporters asked two parties of a
debate at the Hayeli Club, Nicol Pashinyan, member of the Alternative,
and Republican Armen Ashotyan. "Let us define what we mean. If we
mean the elections, the Republican Party stands no chance, if we
mean arbitrariness, the Republican Party stands a good chance,"
Nicol Pashinyan says.
Naturally, Armen Ashotyan holds the contrary opinion. He is convinced
that the Republican candidate will win. Unlike the deputy leader
of the Republican Party, Ashotyan even pronounces the name of the
Republican candidate. "The Republican Party stands a good chance to
win the election. Nobody, not even the most stern critics doubt this,
and this is the reason for the nervous expectation that the victory of
the Republicans is imminent. Although there is always an alternative
to democracy in elections in terms of mechanisms but there is no
alternative to Serge Sargsyan’s victory," Armen Ashotyan says.
Nicol Pashinyan says when he was a reporter and heard that people
hate the government, Robert Kocharyan and Serge Sargsyan, I did
not believe, but when he became involved in politics, and had more
frequent and intensive contact with citizens, he understood that
there is hatred. "If we had a mechanism of free expression of will
in the election, it is highly illogical to suppose that a citizen
will voluntarily vote for a person for whom he has deep antipathy,
to put it mildly," Nicol Pashinyan says.