REPUBLICAN PARTY’S CONFERENCE IN NOVEMBER

Largir
Sept 5 2007
Armenia

The conference of the Republican Party which was first said to take
place in July, then in October, will be held in November. The press
secretary of the Republican Party Edward Sharmazanov stated September
5 at the Hayeli Club on these days a meeting of the Council of the
party will be held to set the date of the conference. "I think the
conference will probably be held in early November," Edward Sharmazanov
said. According to him, the name of the candidate will become known
after the conference. Edward Sharmazanov reminded that the leader of
the party Serge Sargsyan had stated before the presidential election
that his decision to run in the presidential election will depend on
the number of votes for the Republican Party on May 12. Sharmazanov
says the result of the election allows stating that Serge Sargsyan
is a popular candidate.

As to the poll conducted in Armenia by the public opinion survey
organization led by Gevorg Poghosyan ordered by the Gallup Center
which gives Serge Sargsyan a lower popular rating than Vardan Oskanyan,
Raffi Hovannisian and Gagik Tsarukyan, Edward Sharmazanov disagrees. "I
do not share this opinion. I can see now that the Republican Party
has every reason, considering the election in May, and after the
election of May the Republican Party has not retreated, I believe
that the activities of the Republican Party in the parliament and
the government will help get the rating of the Republican Party
higher. I think at the moment the Republican Party is the political
force which has a distinct political team and a distinct program,"
Edward Sharmazanov says.