"THE RULING GOVERNMENT IS IN FRENZY"

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07:18 pm | October 13, 2009

Politics

"Non-partisans of Armenia, unite!"-this is the slogan for president
of the Union of Politicians Hmayak Hovhannisyan who still hasn’t
registered to run for deputy by the majoritarian order at the #10
precinct.

During a press conference at the "Artsakh" club today, Hovhannisyan
reiterated that he is going to run for office and will not reject
his nomination for somebody, despite the rumors flying around. Hmayak
Hovhannisyan is going to run for office by civil initiative.

Let us remind that the post has been vacant since Khachatur Sukiasyan
dropped his deputy mandate at the #10 precinct.

The president of the Union of Politicians only regrets that he had
not run for office during the 2007 parliamentary elections.

According to him, the ruling government was in frenzy after
Hovhannisyan announced that he was going to run for office and that is
why the Central Electoral Commission has not appointed the time-frames
for elections to this day. "By law, the NA Chairman had to appeal to
the CEC Chairman within 5 days to inform that there was a vacant spot
and after that, the CEC had to announce the nomination, the deadlines
for registration and the day of elections. But they didn’t do that,"
says Hovhannisyan.

Why is Hmayak Hovhannisyan tying that to him? In response, he said:
"To this day, I am the only one who has announced that he is going
to run for office."

Rumor has it that chairman of the Armenian Progressive Party Tigran
Urikhanyan and Vahan Babayan from the MIAK party are also running
for office at this precinct.

Press secretary for the CEC Tatev Ohanyan told "A1+" that the date
for the vote has not been announced and the CEC just received the
protocol from the National Assembly last night.