DID LEVON TER-PETROSSIAN FORBID PASHINYAN AND ZURABYAN TO ANNOUNCE THEIR CANDIDACIES, IN ORDER THAT BAGRATYAN WAS NOMINATED?
DECEMBER 26, 2012 15:21
“In the case of certain arguments, it seems Levon Ter-Petrossian
helped Bagratyan announce his candidacy, not allowing either Levon
Zurabyan or Nikol Pashinyan from the Armenian National Congress
(ANC) to announce their candidacies,” Styopa Safaryan, a member of
the Heritage Party, said to
According to him, Ter-Petrossian’s postponing his statement on his
nomination caused a congress convened by one of the ANC member parties
and a nomination, “In that situation, self-nominations would have been
more than strange, it would have shown that the ANC didn’t exist,
rather than that it had a candidate. The ANC has to solve the issue
of one candidate. I repeat in this sense, Ter-Petrossian’s postponing
his decision was beneficial for Bagratyan with regard to solving the
dispute in his favor.”
However, Mr. Safaryan puts forward another scenario and doesn’t rule
out that the very decision of Bagratyan not to announce his candidacy
prevented Ter-Petrossian, “On the
other hand, Bagratyan himself caused Ter-Petrossian to face a dilemma
either to announce his candidacy and be disgraced, or to realize his
chances and not announce his candidacy, making way for Bagratyan. It
is hard to say at this point in time which of these two scenarios is
more realistic. Ter-Petrossian solved Bagratyan’s problem smoothly
or Bagratyan solved Ter-Petrossian’s issues.”
Arpine SIMONYAN