"HERITAGE" PARTY REPRESENTATIVE BELIEVES THAT "THE SOCIETY SHOULD TAKE UP EFFORTS FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN ARMENIA TO BE HELD IN 2 ROUNDS"

Mediamax
January 31, 2008

Yerevan /Mediamax/. Member of parliamentary faction of "Heritage"
Larisa Alaverdian stated in Yerevan today that "the society should take
up efforts for the presidential elections to be held in two rounds".

Mediamax reports that, speaking at a news conference in Yerevan today,
she stated that the victory of "the candidate from the ruling party
in the first round will be quite doubtful and not corresponding the
real moods of the electorate".

Larisa Alaverdian expressed readiness to participate in the grounded
protest actions of any of the presidential candidates. According
to her, starting from the parliamentary elections of 1995 and
the presidential elections of 1996, "seizure of power by means of
falsification of election results is regularly taking place in the
country".

The MP stated the presence of "low provincial level of understanding
of the pre-election campaign". In the course of the recent few
years the level of political culture in Armenia slumped, Larisa
Alaverdian stated. She noted that proper campaigns are held only by
two presidential candidates – Vazgen Manukian and Arman Melikian, and
other two candidates – Vahan Hovhannissian and Artur Baghdasarian –
are "partially proper".