PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VAZGEN MANUKIAN TO VISIT MARZES LATER

Noyan Tapan
Jan 24, 2008

YEREVAN, JANUARY 24, NOYAN TAPAN. At the initial stage of his
pre-election campaign, the candidate for presidency of the RA,
chairman of the National Democratic Union (NDU) Vazgen Manukian
will present his program provisions and ideological approaches to
the public on television and through the mass media, after which he
will meet with voters. In his opinion, "the current period requires
sensible, well thought-out propaganda". Like in the previous elections,
he will pay visits to marzes at the last stage so that voters will
be familiar with his program and be interested in meeting him and
asking him questions. As for rallies, according to V. Manukian,
although rallies are important in terms of conducting propaganda,
this importance sould not be overestimated as the actual impact of
rallies on the final results are less than is assumed. He said that
the experience of the previous elections shows that "our people is
quite curious, also hospitable", and for this reason Armenians go to
listen to the person who has visited them but each of them has his
own opinion and is usually determined beforehead whom to elect.

In parallel with organizing the pre-election campaign, the pre-election
headquarters of V. Manukian are clarifying the list of persons
empowered to act for the candidate. In order to control efficiently
the process of elections, the NUD, which has no authority to appoint
its members in electoral commissions, has applied to the "Heritage"
party, presenting a list of candidates for membership in nearly 100
local electoral commissions.

The formation of local electoral commissions will begin on January
24, and "Heritage" has in advance expressed a willingness to provide
extraparliamentary parties with places in local electoral commissions,
in which the party has no opportunity to appoint members because of
insufficient number of qualified candidates for commission membership.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress