TIGRAN TOROSIAN: CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENCY, WHO GIVE GREAT PROMISES, ARE SURE THEMSELVES THAT THEY WILL NOT WIN

Noyan Tapan
Jan 25, 2008

YEREVAN, JANUARY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. "A group of candidates for presidency
gives great promises" that by coming to power they will reduce the
taxes, will make some changes, and so on and so forth. However,
as Tigran Torosian, the RA NA Speaker, said on January 24 in his
interview to the Shant TV company, a very important circumstance
proceeding from the constitutional amendments is disregarded: the
President of the republic has "very limited powers" in case of not
having a majority in the parliament. He also said that some of the
candidates forget that they have been in power and whatever they say
the people will remember their past acts. The NA Speaker considers
that the people, who give great promises today, are sure themselves
that they will not win.

Touching upon the predictions that the elections will end in one tour,
including those made by RPA, T. Torosian said that their "motivations
are first of all the observations done by independent professional
structures, secondly, are their meetings and thirdly, they already
have the experience of the unprecedented parliamentary elections of
2007," when RPA "gathered considerable votes" and which in difference
to all elections held by the previous authorities blaming them, were
recognized as meeting the international standards by international
observers.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress