ARMENIAN OPPOSITION PARTIES ARE HOLDING TALKS – NEWSPAPER
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January 27, 2012 | 09:51
YEREVAN. – The 2013 presidential elections is the key issue being
discussed during the talks between the parliamentary opposition
Heritage Party and the non-parliamentary opposition Free Democrats
Party, Haykakan Zhamanak daily writes.
“Our sources claim that Heritage is prepared to form a pre-election
bloc with the Free Democrats, during the upcoming parliamentary
elections, if the latter [Free Democrats] promise to support [Heritage
leader] Raffi Hovannisian’s nomination in the 2013 presidential
elections. According to our sources, the Free Democrats are ready to
accept this condition, because they believe they do not have their
own deserving nominee for the presidential elections. In the case of
such support, however, the Free Democrats wish to receive the maximum
number of spots in the top five and top ten of the joint proportional
[parliamentary election] list. Also, if they do not enter the [National
Assembly] NA in the upcoming elections, the condition of supporting
Raffi, in the presidential elections, will become null and void,”
Haykakan Zhamanak writes.
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