ARMENIAN OPPOSITION DISUNITED IN RUN-UP TO PRESIDENTIAL POLLS – POLITICIAN
Arminfo
8 Aug 07
Yerevan, 8 August: Armenia’s opposition figures cannot close ranks
in the run-up to the presidential elections and nominate a single
presidential candidate because the opposition is multifarious, the
head of the National Democratic Alliance, Arshak Sadoyan, has said
at a news conference.
Moreover, the main reason for that are also reins of power, Sadoyan
believes.
Sadoyan said that he does not participate in the current negotiations
of opposition figures, i.e. the recent meeting of opposition members
held at the Metelitsa cafe on the initiative of [the leader of the
Self-Determination Union] Paruyr Ayrikyan. He regards such meetings
are having a particular aim.
"The opposition should be holding negotiations on nominating not a
single candidate but the main candidate," he said. Sadoyan believes
that the main candidate should be a person who can prove that he
is able to prove his readiness to solve significant problems of
the country.
Sadoyan pointed out that he intends to support the candidacy of
[the leader of the National Democratic Union] Vazgen Manukyan in the
forthcoming presidential election.