ZHARANGUTIUN’S DECISION WILL BE CONDITIONED BY NOT PERSONALITY OF CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENCY, BUT BY HIS PREELECTION PROGRAM

Noyan Tapan
Dec 7, 2007

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 7, NOYAN TAPAN. The Zharangutiun (Heritage) party’s
Board, at the December 6 expanded sitting, made a decision not to
nominate any candidate for the forthcoming presidential elections. The
Board also empowered the party administration to make an official
decision on the format of party’s participation in the elections after
the final registration of the candidates. As representatives of the NA
Zharangutiun faction said at the December 7 press briefing, party’s
decision on supporting any candidate will be greatly conditioned by
not candidate’s personality, but by his preelection program.

According to Larisa Alaverdian, a faction member, for Zharangutiun’s
political orientation, it will be decisive whether candidates’
program provisions will be aimed at changing the "political regime
from authoritarian to more liberal one." The party will attach no less
importance to presence of precise mechanisms of establishment of real
democracy and liberalization of economy in a candidate’s program.