Black PR applied to favorites of election campaign, MP from RPA
parliamentary faction says

2008-01-18 18:40:00

ArmInfo. Black PR is applied to favorites of presidential campaign, MP
from the parliamentary faction of the Republican Party of Armenia, a
member of RPA Council, Press Secretary of RPA Eduard Sharmazanov said
at a press conference, Friday.

As regards election campaigns in Armenia, he said RPA is against
counter-campaigning. ‘Unlike other political forces, we do not aspire
to malign our rivals or call on the people not to vote against a
candidate. Our goal is to explain electors our aims and tasks’,
Sharmazanov said. If there is no change of the situation, Serzh
Sargsyan will succeed already in the first round of election. ‘It is
important for RPA to conduct legitimate elections meeting international
standards. The authorities aim to settle this task and the
parliamentary elections in May 2007 are an evidence of it’, Sharmazanov
said. As regards S. Sargsyan’s stand on foreign policy of Armenia,
Sharmazanov said the prime minister is neither pro-Russian nor pro-
American, but, first of all, pro-Armenian political figure. ‘However,
it is noteworthy that Armenia’s relations with Russia and EU
member-states are of great importance to Serzh Sargsyan’, he said.