PEOPLE’S DISTRUST TOWARD ELECTIONS REACHES UNPRECEDENTED LEVEL – ARF-D MP
07.12.12
Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktustyun (ARF-D) is not
offering its 7-point platform for playing games, head of ARF-D faction
Armen Rustamyan said at a briefing today.
“We have not come here to play games. We are presenting to the people
the agenda with which we are coming forth,” he said, adding that
they believe in mechanisms and prefer the public interest to narrow
personal interests.
Asked why during the previous elections the ARF-D oriented speedily,
while now it hesitates, Rustamyan said the change of the situation
is clear.
“It cannot be compared with the previous ones as public’s trust toward
electoral processes reduces more and more. The degree of distrust is
unprecedented, nothing like this has ever been registered,” he said,
adding that they do not see any reason to hurry.
“What’s the sense of hurrying, when many issues have remained unsolved,
when there is no consolidation. There cannot be a consolidation over
personality,” he said, adding that the easiest thing for them is to
give the name of a candidate.
“The thing is how useful these elections are for the people and in
general whether to participate in the elections or not. It would not
be bad if we have managed to apply a mechanism and learn the people’s
wish over the united candidate,” he said.
Rustamyan said he is convinced that if any force accepts the road
map they have proposed, irrespective whether the ARF-D is elected or
not, it [the political force] is obliged to bring these provisions
into life.
Asked if they will back Gagik Tsarukyan in case the Prosperous Armenia
party accepts ARF-D’s proposed points, Rustamyan said they all are
contender candidates and cannot be separated. “As soon as we are
talking about objective things you bring forward the subjective ones.
Let’s not speak about it and not run forward,” he said.
The ARF-D MP stressed that they do not have any hostility toward any
candidate and their cooperation proposal is not personalized.
From: A. Papazian