SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY URGES OPPOSITION GROUPS TO RALLY AROUND SINGLE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
ARMENPRESS
Aug 07 2007
YEREVAN, AUGUST 7, ARMENPRESS: Chairwoman of the Armenian Henchakian
(Social Democratic) party Ludmilla Sarkisian urged today leaders
of major opposition groups to rally around a single candidate for
challenging the pro-government contestant in 2008 presidential
election.
Speaking to a news conference Ms. Ludmila Sarkisian mentioned, among
others, ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosian as one of a potential single
opposition candidate.
"I have never been an advocate of ex-president, but today I see him as
a man able to join the race, but in case he is able to persuade us he
is the sole candidate who may display will to win the polls," she said.
In response to a question whether she thinks ordinary Armenians have
forgotten the ordeals they experiences during Ter-Petrosian’s rule,
Ms. Sarkisian said they certainly did not. "But I think Ter-Petrosian
has also drawn conclusions and today he can come out with a new
emerge," she said. "If the opposition groups prove incapable of
learning a lesson from their defeat in May 12 parliamentary elections,
incapable of joining around a single candidate that would mean they
have nothing to do in politics,’ she said.