ALVARD PETROSIAN: "DASHNAKTSUTIUN IS DEVOID OF STEREOTYPES"

Noyan Tapan
Nov 16, 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The fact that the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation (ARFD) has at once nominated two political
figures as potential candidates running for presidency speaks about
the existence of political culture in that party. This statement
was made by Alvard Petrosian, a member of the ARF Dashnaktsutiun
Bureau, as well as of the homonimic faction of the National Assembly
and a publicist, at the November 16 press conference. In her words,
the right of each member of the ARF Dashnaktsutiun for thinking and
expressing oneself freely, the party has granted to its members, is
also a manifestation of high political culture. "We are a disciplined
party, however, devoid of stereotypes," Alvard Petrosian clarified.

There is no strange phenomenon in the interpolitical field at present,
according to the representative of the ARF Dashnaktsutiun. In her
observation, opposition and power mass media strain the situation: the
first ones regard the return of the former President of the Republic
of Armenia into the political arena as a fatal step, and the second
ones introduce Serge Sargsian, the candidate of the Republican Party
of Armenia, as "an unconquerable image." "Being so fanatically for
or against somebody means to apply black PR towards that person,"
Alvard Petrosian said.