IN CONVICTION OF DAVID HAKOBIAN, EVERYTHING WILL BE DECIDED AT SECOND STAGE OF FORTHCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
Noyan Tapan
Aug 10 2007
YEREVAN, AUGUST 10, NOYAN TAPAN. In the 2008 presidential elections
there will be a struggle between "merely intellectual personalities"
and not between parties. This provision was made by David Hakobian,
the Chairman of the Marxist Party of Armenia, at the press conference,
which was held on August 10. In his conviction, more important for
the Armenian society is the fact of which of the candidates is more
progressive in terms of the protection of national interests.
"The new leader of the country should be the one, who will be the
principle architect and the ideological archimandrite of the new
economic policy, as well as of the new national ideology and concept
paper. He should also stand surely for the biological security of
the nation," the Chairman of the Marxist Party of Armenia said.
Touching upon the issue of the opposition with regard to taking part
in the forthcoming presidential elections with one common candidate,
David Hakobian mentioned that "no party or a group of parties is
entitled to make a future leader incumbent upon the nation." In his
conviction, the more are the candidates for the post of the president,
the greater will be the possibility of holding a second stage, which
is necessary. "Let the opposition unite around the one, whom the
nation will send to the second stage. That will be a non-ambitious
and a non-egoistical unification. Thus, everything will be decided
at the second stage," David Hakobian declared.