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withdrawn his candidacy from electoral district No. 7.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.
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