Candidate for president Arman Melikyan worries about the electoral
situation in the country

2008-02-16 13:48:00

ArmInfo. Today candidate for president, former advisor of the NKR
president Arman Melikyan expressed anxiety because of the electoral
situation in the country before the presidential election.

He said at Hayatsk club today that before starting of the campaign he
expected tension between supporters of the first Armenian president
Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisyan, but one could
hardly predict that contradiction will be so radical and implacable.
They hate each other and this is very dangerous, Melikyan thinks. He
also added that there is real threat of clash up to bloodshed, as
Ter-Petrosyan’s supporters say they are ready to go to the end in the
fight for power, and Serzh Sarkisyan’s – to preserve power. In this
context Arman Melikyan is disappointed for the Heritage party decision
to join Ter-Petrosyan. As for the statement of High Spiritual council
of Armenian Apostolic Church calling to tolerance, Melikyan called it
out-of-date. "I would like the Church be active not from time to time
and not from election to election. Politicians should make steps for
reconciliation", –
Melikyan said.

Arman Melikyan assessed his election campaign positively and called up
the voters "to vote according to their conscience, and not for the
candidate which is unpleasant, but which nevertheless will be finally
recognized the winner".

Asked about his business in case of losing Arman Melikyan said that
anyway he will stay in the politics and in Armenia, and if the new
authorities offer him cooperation which is not beyond his principles,
he will accept it, he said.