`Dashnaktsutiun’ believes that `the authorities of Armenia took up all
the efforts for the pre-election struggle to proceed in an atmosphere
of instability’

February 15, 2008

Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian authorities have taken up all the efforts
for the pre-election struggle to proceed in an atmosphere of
instability, representative of `Dashnaktsutiun’ party Bureau Hrant
Margarian stated in Yerevan today.

Mediamax reports that, according to Hrant Margarian, despite the
efforts of `Dashnaktsutiun’ to establish atmosphere of `ideology
struggle’ in the country, both the authorities and separate candidates,
destabilize the situation in Armenia by reciprocal accusations and
improper agitation methods.

`The political field of Armenia is like our society, which has
deep-rooted notions of the criminal world’, Hrant Margarian stated.

At that, he strictly criticized the presidential candidate Levon
Ter-Petrosian. `Having united around himself three-four thousand
people, he is already using blackmail against people, who are not with
him’, Hrant Margarian stated. According to him, the very means of the
pre-election struggle should be worth the goal, which is not the case
here.

Hrant Margarian expressed opinion that the presidential elections will
consist of two rounds. He did not rule out the possibility that the
events may develop by another scenario, which may lead to collisions
and destabilization in future.