DPA LEADER: IT IS HURTFUL TO THINK THAT ARMENIAN PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN THEIR YESTERDAY OR THEY CHOOSE THE LEAST OF TWO EVILS
ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Oct 5 2007
ArmInfo. Leader of the Democratic party of Armenia Aram Sargsyan
considers the recent meeting of ex-President of Armenia Levon
Ter-Petrosyan with representatives of ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" strange,
he expressed his opinion at today’s press-conference in "Tesaket" club.
"The situation is strange enough and unexpected for me. No one knows
what they discussed during a 40-minute meeting", DPA leader said
and added that in view of absence of specific information, different
assumptions can be made. A. Sargsyan hypothecate that it is profitable
for ARFD not to remember "the problems of the past years", while it is
profitable for ex-President Levon Ter-Petrosyan "to forget" his own
deeds (with respect to this party- ed.). Asked about possibility of
creation of an election bloc between ARFD and the Armenian National
Movement party, A. Sargsyan replied: "I rule out nothing".
As for possibility of L. Ter-Petrosyan’s participation in the
forthcoming presidential election, A. Sargsyan recalled that the
"issue of nomination of the ex-president’s candidacy is still unclear
despite the attempts of Ter-Petrosyan’s relationship to reanimate
him as a political figure". "My attitude to his personality and his
organization is well-known. The people elected him, indeed, in 1991,
and this is a fact. However, if he enters the political arena today,
he can receive the voices only. The people’s attitude towards him is
also well-known. It is hurtfully to think that the Armenian people
have forgotten their yesterday or they choose the least of two evils",
Aram Sargsyan said.