Garik Keryan: Gagik Tsarukyan’s decision will lead to decrease in
PAP’s approval rating
16:39 14/12/2012 » TOPIC OF THE DAY
Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik Tsarukyan’s refusal to run for
president and back any candidate will lead to a decrease in the
party’s approval rating, head of YSU political science chair,
Professor Garik Keryan told reporters in Yerevan.
`Unlike parliamentary elections, presidential elections imply fight
connected with candidates approval rating. From this point of view, it
is natural that candidates calculate their benefits from their
participation in the elections or their refusal to participate in the
elections as well as what they will lose in each of these cases,’
Keryan said.
According to him, in all probability, Gagik Tsarukyan also made such
calculations and then made this decision, which cannot but affect his
approval rating.
`As a result of this decision, a serious electorate remained in a
vacuum. Parties that were in a hopeless situation received a
possibility to win over this electorate. Armenian political arena
lacks political parties that have a serious ideology and come up with
their political course. Instead, there are extremely charismatic
political parties whose activities, popularity and even economic and
administrative resource are connected with political activities of
individuals. Armenian parties are mainly based on charisma of one
individual,’ Keryan concluded.
Source: Panorama.am
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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