THREE CONDITIONS TO ARF (DASHNAKTSUTYUN)
By Gohar Gevorgian, translated by L.H

AZG Armenian Daily
27/11/2007

Union of NR, DLP Armenia and Alliance does not exclude the possibility
of supporting ARF candidate

"National Renaissance"(NR), "Alliance" and Democratic Liberal Party
of Armenia continue to negotiate the issue of unification, announced
Chairman of NR party Albert Bazeyan in "Tesaket" club.

According to him, the political figure will lead the union, who
will be elected, maybe him, maybe the representative of DLP Armenia,
or the leader of "Alliance" Samvel Babayan.

It is already announced that in case of unification the three parties
will not have a candidate but will support one of the presidential
candidates. Albert Bazeyan couldn’t tell concrete names, as only after
the nominations of the candidates and the presentation of their plans
the union will announce whom they support.

To the question of "Azg" daily about the possibility of supporting
the ARF candidate, Albert Bazeyan answered, "If our colleagues tell
forcible arguments that it is right to support the ARF candidate,
in this case I will not exclude that circumstance. But before it ARF
should take some steps; if it is able to rally several opposition
parties and political figures round it, and propose plans and
approaches close to ours, why not, we will even support the ARF
candidate, in that case we expect that ARF will act as opposition
and call back its officials from the government. In this case we
don’t exclude the possibility of supporting ARF candidate", told the
Chairman of NR Albert Bazeyan.

It’s worth to mention that Albert Bazeyan has many times mentioned that
the viewpoints of Vazgen Manukian are dear to him, and he confirmed
it also on November 24.

Chairman of the "Alliance" party Samvel Babayan has announced that
he will support Serge Sarkisian.

It’s very interesting what kind of candidate supporting conclusion
will reach the parties after the unification.