ARMENIAN OPPOSITION REP DISBELIEVES SOCIOLOGIST
TERT.AM
24.09.12
The sociologist Aharon Adibekyan is not at all an authority for
Aram Manukyan, Secretary of the Armenian National Congress (ANC)
parliamentary group.
“He says what he is ordered to. So we have no comments. You are well
aware of his reputation,” Manukyan told Tert.am.
Specifically, Chairman of the People’s Party Tigran Karapetyan is
highly critical of Aharon Adibekyan, calling him a “liar.”
At his meeting with journalists on Monday, Adibekyan presented the
results of polls which involved 1,650 voters in all Armenian regions.
According to the results, 30.4% of the respondents see Gagik Tsarukyan,
Chairman of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), as a presidential
candidate in the 2013 presidential election.
Also, 10.1% of the respondents see Armenia’s second president Robert
Kocharyan, 8.7% Chairman of the Heritage party Raffi Hovhannisyan and
4% Chairman of the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (ANC).
As to when Mr Ter-Petrosyan can be expected to nominate for presidency,
Manukuyan said, “Within the terms set by law.”
As regards PAP members’ opinion on the poll, Elinar Vardanyan, a PAP
parliamentary group member, said she mistrusts public opinion polls.
“However, they sometimes reflect the real situation,” she added.