PEOPLE’S PARTY NOMINATES KARAPETIAN TO RUN FOR ARMENIAN PRESIDENT

Russia & CIS Presidential Bulletin
November 27, 2007

A congress of the Armenian People’s Party has nominated the party’s
leader and head of the ALM media holding Tigran Karapetian to run in
the upcoming presidential elections.

We nominate an alternative candidate, who was not in power before
and who is not in power now, Karapetian said at the congress.

The Armenian People’s Party was established in 1995. Some 14,500
people are members of the party. The party received roughly 2.7%
of votes at the May 12, 2007 parliamentary elections and failed to
clear the 5% threshold.

Meanwhile, the Armenian Central Elections Commission (CEC) told
Interfax that no candidate for the presidency has submitted relevant
documents yet. The deadline for submitting documents is December 6.

The Armenian presidential elections will take place on February 19,
2008. Six candidates are expected to run for presidency, including
Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian and former Prime Minister
Levon Ter-Petrosian.