ACCORDING TO SPECIALIST OF ELECTORAL TECHNOLOGIES, POTENTIAL CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR PRESIDENCY DO NOT BUILD THEIR TACTICS IN A LITERATE WAY
Noyan Tapan
Nov 6, 2007
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 6, NOYAN TAPAN. According to Armen Badalian,
a specialist of electoral technologies, In Armenia those political
figures, who want to put forward their candidatures in the presidential
elections, do not build their pre-electoral tactics in a literate
way. As he mentioned at the November 6 press conference, the rude
mistake of Prime Minister Serge Sargsian, in particular, was the
meeting with Ashot Bleyan, the Head of the "Mkhitar Sebastatsi"
educational complex, as a figure, who has his contribution in the
Karabakh war, should not meet with a person, who visited Azerbaijan
at the beginning of 1990. The next mistake of the Prime Minister,
according to Armen Badalian, is that he spoke about the paradise
and hell in his recent interview with the editor of the Daily Azg,
saying that "the rich will go to the hell, thus coming out of the
role of the prime minister and taking the role of Mahatma Gandhi."
Armen Badalian added that the members of the Republican party make a
rude mistake every time they declare that they do not consider the
first president as a main rival for their candidate. Repeating the
same expression for too many times, according to the specialist,
speaks about the contrary, that is to say, their main rival is the
very Levon Ter-Petrosian. "Why the members of the Republican Party
of Armenia do not continuously declare, for example, that they do
not regard the chief marxist as their main rival," Armen Badalian said.
In his words, it is normal that the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
has put forward two potential candidates at once. However, according
to Armen Badalian, the mistake of the members of the Dashnaktsutiun
is that the two candidates do not compete with each other during
the meetings with the population, as it is accepted abroad, just
on the contrary, they present a united viewpoint with regard to all
the questions.