FORTHCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TO BE MORE REPLETE IDEOLOGICALLY THAN PARLIAMENTARY ONES: REPRESENTATIVE OF ARF DASHNAKTSUTYUN

ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Oct 1 2007

ArmInfo. ‘The forthcoming February, 2008, presidential election will
be more replete ideologically than the past parliamentary ones. At
the same time, it is yet early to say that the desired level of the
political fight has been reached in the country’, representative of
ARF Dashnaktsutyun Spartak Seyranyan said today in "Zerkalo" club.

He said that gradual transfer of the political struggle to the
ideological plain happens preferably not by the parties’ will. It is
a result of the public order execution, S. Seyranyan said.

Talking of the role of bribing voters in the forthcoming electoral
campaign, he paid special attention to availability of these phenomena
in all the countries. It is quite another matter in what manner they
are served. "If there are turns in front of the candidates’ offices,
who dispense bribery, it means that part of the population is still at
such low educational level and difficult social state that prefer to
take 5000 drams having sold their voice", ARFD’s representative said.

Commenting on the recent statement of the People’s Party leader Tigran
Karapetyan about mass delivery of bribe by Dashnaktsutyun itself during
the recent election, S. Seyranyan emphasized that he does not intend
to idealize himself and his party, however, "the whole history of
ARF Dashnaktsutyun has shown that one should be careful when giving
assessments to it. Many of those who comment on our activity, very
often turn out to be out of politics".