YURI MANUKYAN: "WE ARE SLIGHTLY INCLINED TOWARDS AUTHORITIES"
Panorama.am
16:17 15/11/2007
"We have decided to support Serzh Sargsyan during the presidential
elections because we know very well what it means to destroy homes
and lose a motherland. This fear forces us to be in a team that
will ensure stability," United Communist Party (UCP) Chairman Yuri
Manukyan told reporters today. In his words, they have applied to
other communist parties in writing to run in the elections with a
single communist candidate but none has responded. After that UCP
has decided to support the candidacy of the prime minister.
"We are neither opposition, nor authorities in power but we are
slightly inclined towards the authorities," UCP chairman said, also
saying that they had told before the parliamentary elections that
in case the Republicans and the Prosperous Armenia develop right
relations, the opposition would have nothing to do, which happened.
Asked why they cooperate with the Republicans instead of Dashnaksutiun
with social orientation, Yuri Manukyan answered: "Dashnaksutiun is
socialist just in words. They do not act in the socialist field." He
forgot that the same may be said about the Republicans.