WHAT SHOULD BE DONE IN CASE TER-PETROSYAN’S VOTES ARE STOLEN

Lragir.am
09-11-2007 14:10:31

What is the reason that the society now relies on the ex-president
Levon Ter-Petrosyan it had rejected ten years ago rather than on the
renowned political opposition leaders of the recent past? This question
was asked to Stepan Demirchyan, the leader of the People’s Party
of Armenia at the Hayeli Press Club on November 9 who said he will
not run in the presidential election because he is for unification,
and Ter-Petrosyan has the biggest potential for unification.

"I stated some time ago about public demand. The society demands
that the forces unite, and today Levon Ter-Petrosyan has the biggest
possibility to bring them together. This is the intrigue of the
day," Stepan Demirchyan says. Nevertheless, it is interesting why
it is so. "Well, it happened so. The return to the political sphere
after ten years of silence brings freshness, and I think this is the
intrigue, and the struggle will be between the government candidate
and Levon Ter-Petrosyan. However, the real struggle is unification
because a separate candidate, even if it is Levon Ter-Petrosyan,
stands no chance to win," Stepan Demirchyan says.

He was also asked what advice the candidate who in fact won the
presidential election of 2003, but other outcome was officially
announced, can give to Levon Ter-Petrosyan what to do in February
2008 not to let the government get away with vote tampering because
probably the same will occur in 2008 with renewed methods.

"I thought there would be no such questions now, however, when I
am not going to run in the presidential election, there is no end,
a Constitutional way, and so on. I think at that time we made no
mistakes, there were manipulations indeed, but we prevented bloodshed
then. We prevented the country from bloodshed, out of the supreme
interests of Armenia. I am sure that Levon Ter-Petrosyan approves
this way. It does not mean that the peaceful track leads nowhere. The
same should be done but more consistently and in a better organized
manner. The most important thing is the consistency of the political
forces and activists. But let us not go ahead of the developments,"
says the leader of the People’s Party of Armenia.