HERITAGE LEADER WITHDRAWS CANDIDACY

Tert.am
26.03.12

The leader of the opposition Heritage party, Raffi Hovhannisyan,
decided to quit the campaign for a majority seat in parliament after
it became known that another opposition candidate, Editor-in-Chief
of the Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper Nikol Pashinyan, is his contestant
in the same majority constituency.

At a news conference on Monday, the Heritage leader said he had
withdrawn his candidacy from electoral district No. 7.

“I declare that our party will now have seven single-member nominees,”
he told reporters.

According to Hovhannisyan, the Heritage members have met with
representatives of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC)
to discuss possibilities of a split ticket ballot but the alliance
rejected the proposal.

“I have to mention with regret that the ANC turned our cooperation
proposal. But I wish them all to succeed and withdraw from the
single-seat campaign,” he said.