ARFD Will Not Support Serge Sargsyan

ARFD WILL NOT SUPPORT SERGE SARGSYAN

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[08:35 pm] 06 June, 2007

ARF Dashnaktsutyun will not support Serge Sargsyan during the 2008
presidential elections, ARFD member Armen Rustamyan told A1+.

Armen Rustamyan says the agreement is a new model of political
agreement, stability, which creates a new culture. "And the ARF
Dashnaktsutyun underlines the importance of it because a political
agreement finally leads to a national agreement," Armen Rustamyan says.

Nevertheless, some important issues remain to agree.

First of all, the presidential candidate of 2008. "At least two
reasons, I can point to.

First, it is the problem of our independence and the independent
political tactics. Because you know that Dashnaktsutyun had said
to name a candidate in the presidential election. And it was long
discussed if Dashnaktsutyun was trying to get dividends in the
parliamentary election or to build its tactics on it.

Wasn’t it propaganda? I think the agreements signed after the
negotiations gave a full answer to this question, and it became clear
that Dashnaktsutyun is a party with a strong organization and the
decisions that are passed by the supreme meetings of Dashnaktsutyun
are implemented without reservations," Armen Rustamyan says.

He said Dashnaktsutyun will name president during the Supreme Meeting
in the fall. According to the representative of the ARFD Supreme Body,
if Dashnaktsutyun had covert aims, i.e. named a formal candidate,
and supported the Republican candidate in the second round, it would
be pointless to negotiate for over a month on the government.

Armen Rustamyan also stated that it is ingenious to think the ARF
Dashnaktsutyun’s candidate will not be competitive. Dashnaktsutyun
is the force which can at least put up a competitive candidate in the
presidential election. He says the situation is not ordinary because
on the one hand they are not part of the coalition, on the other hand,
they name ministers.

"I should note, however, the difference is that a longer-lasting
collaboration is set up through a political coalition. And
collaboration is more flexible," Armen Rustamyan says. The
collaboration will last until the presidential election.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS