ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FROM ARF DASHNAKTSUTYUN VAHAN HOVHANNISIAN IS THE FIRST AMONG PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO ANSWER ‘HERITAGE’ PARTY’S QUESTIONS IN WRITTEN

arminfo
2008-01-21 18:47:00

ArmInfo. Armenian presidential candidate from ARF Dashnaktsutyun Vahan
Hovhannisian was the first among the presidential candidates to answer
"Heritage" party’s questions in written.

A reliable source told ArmInfo, V. Hovannisyan’s written answers to
"Heritage" party’s questionnaire reached the office of the opposition
"Heritage" party in the morning, January 21. ARFD’s contender to
the presidential post answered all the 22 questions posed to all the
candidates by the "Heritage party’s Board on December 18, 2007.

To note, this took place two days after ARFD’s Board made a decision,
according to which the party, which hasn’t the right to participate in
the presidential election with its own candidate still doesn’t intend
to support any of the candidates. It was stated in the decision adopted
by the managing body of "Heritage" party, in the night of January 19,
that none of the presidential candidates has officially responded to
the questionnaire of public information. Concern was also expressed
in the document in connection with that the opposition never learnt
a lesson from the latest parliamentary election and didn’t take the
path of consolidation. "Heritage" party’s board appealed presidential
candidates Vazgen Manukyan, Vahan Hovhannisyan, Artur Baghdasaryan
and Levon Ter-Petrosyan to reconsider their election strategy.

"If the need, that at least two of the above mentioned join, is not
met, the party will make its final decision later", the decision of
"Heritage" party’s Board says. It is obvious that ARFD’s presidential
candidate Vahan Hovhannisian, who was the first to answer Heritage’s
questions after this decision, hopes to get its support in the
presidential election.