PROBABILITY OF ARMENIAN FIRST PRESIDENT’S PARTICIPATION IN FORTHCOMING ELECTION HAS REACHED 50%, HIS TEAMMATE SAYS

ArmInfo Agency, Armenia
Oct 6 2007

ArmInfo. "The probability of the Armenian first President Levon
Ter-Petrosyan’s participation in the forthcoming presidential election
has reached 50%. Indeed, the ex-president said about that at one
of his recent regional meetings with the activists of the Armenian
Pan-National Movement (APNM)," Vahagn Khachatryan, a representative
of the oppositional Alternative movement and former mayor of Yerevan,
told journalists at the Azdak club, Saturday.

According to him, the goal of L.Ter-Petrosyan’s visits to the country’s
regions is to see the situation on the spot.

L.Ter-Petrosyan has already visited all the regions of Armenia. He
had sincere conversations with his followers, and it became clear that
there is hard work to be done, and all the problems cannot be solved
at once. "By the way, some representatives of local administrations
also attend these meetings, and they are not afraid of consequences
despite the atmosphere ruling in the country," V.Khachatryan said.

At the same time, it was difficult for the oppositionist to say when
L.Ter-Petrosyan’s followers will start mass meetings in Yerevan and
other populated areas. "In any case, we’ll pass to a more active
phase of actions, as we are denied air time, and it remains for us
to have direct contacts with people," V.Khachatryan said. To recall,
after the meeting with L.Ter-Petrosyan, Academician Rafael Ghazaryan
has recently given a guess that the meetings with the ex-president’s
participation may start in late October.