IDEOLOGICAL RIVAL OF SERGE SARGSYAN AND LEVON TER-PETROSYAN
Lragir, Armenia
Oct 4 2007
On October 4 the leader of the Marxist Party Davit Hakobyan stated
his likelihood to run in the presidential election. Hakobyan said
he decided to be nominated to fill in the ideological vacuum. "A
vacuum of ideological doctrines, a Torricelli vacuum. The victory is
not as important as the necessity to fill in the gap of ideological
doctrines in the political sphere. This is the problem," Davit Hakobyan
says. According to him, a leader should be natural. "In other words,
the bearer of an ideological doctrine can be natural leader."
"I am asked in which camp I am going to be, Serge Sargsyan’s or Levon
Ter-Petrosyan. I am telling you I am a free wolf of the free Marxist
pack. My prey is my people’s prey, my people’s prey is my prey," the
Marxist announced in Maugli’s words in Russian. At the same time, the
Marxist says he will help both Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Serge Sargsyan
if they need his help. Hakobyan says no political camp accepts him
because they feel as if under pressure beside him. The Marxist says
neither Serge Sargsyan’s camp nor Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s camp invited
him. Davit Hakobyan was especially insulted by Ter-Petrosyan who met
with every political nonentity but hid not invite him for a meeting.
"I am saying this because I was the first to appeal with great pathos
for unity, from Communists to the All-Armenian Movement. I urged not
to be like samurais. In the first stage it is necessary to overthrow
the Vikings to hold a fair election in the second stage because I
know the handwriting of the Republicans which can be described with
two words: lie and theft," says the chief Marxist.
"My struggle, as Hitler put it, mein Kampf, is against political
illiteracy. Today 90 percent of politicians are illiterate," Davit
Hakobyan says. He says Armenia needs serious politicians. "A leader
leads a nation and not a vulgar political simpleton," Davit Hakobyan
says.
He says the candidate who will resort to fraud and ballot staffing is
his rival. Davit Hakobyan says he will be elected to the second round
of the presidential election if there is no fraud. And if he has to
support either Serge Sargsyan or Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Davit Hakobyan
says he will probably support Levon Ter-Petrosyan. However, he has a
precondition, saying that he must shape Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s retinue.