ARTASHES GEGHAMIAN’S SUPPORTERS BELIEVE THAT THE GROWING TENSENESS IN THE SOCIETY MAY LEAD TO DESTABILIZATION

Mediamax
February 12, 2008

Yerevan /Mediamax/. The growing tenseness in the society may lead to
destabilization, which the supporters of presidential candidate Levon
Ter-Petrosian are trying to reach, Spokesman of the pre-election staff
of another presidential candidate, Leader of "National Unification"
party Artashes Geghamian Gagik Tadevosian stated in Yerevan today.

According to him, "we should take up all the efforts not to
allow disturbances both before the elections and afterwards". The
incidents during the pre-election rallies of Ter-Petrosian in Talin
and Artashat became evidence of the growing political confrontation,
Gagik Tadevosian reminded.

"Levon Ter-Petrosian does not have the moral right to participate
in the presidential elections after all the misfortunes, which fell
on the share of the people in the period of his rule in 1990-98",
representative of Artashes Geghamian stated. He expressed confidence
that the election campaign of the ex-President "is abundantly funded
from outside", due to which even before the start of the official
agitation Ter-Petrosian’s pre-election headquarter issued DVDs with
the records of the candidate’s speeches with a circulation of over
200 thousand copies.

Commenting on the agitation against Levon Ter-Petrosian, held by
Artashes Geghamian, Gagik Tadevosian noted that the Leader of "National
Unification" "only responds to the slanderous campaign, realized by
the supporters of the Ex-President and the gutter press, supporting
him". At that he stressed that the present authorities also underwent
harsh criticism by Geghamian on the pages of his pre-election program.