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SERGE SARGSYAN WANTS TO BECOME PRESIDENT AT ONE GO

Politics

“To vote for Serge Sargsyan during the presidential elections means to vote for a war,” Vazgen Manukyan, the leader of the National Democratic Union (NDU), said at the Pastark Club on May 30.

“Provided Serge Sargsyan becomes the RoA President in 2008, corruption and fabrication will keep on reigning in the country,” Vazgen Manukyan says.

Serge Sargsyan will win in case he makes use of his “craftiness”. Sargsyan offers portfolios to other parties. What is the purpose? Obviously, the government will try its best to prevent a run-off election. Serge Sargsyan does his utmost to win the presidential election after the first round. But the Republicans need the votes of the Prosperous Armenia, the ARF Dashnaktsutyun and the United Labour parties.

“I understand Serge Sargsyan’s craftiness but the “naivety” of other parties is not clear to me,” says Vazgen Manukyan.

According to the NDU leader the other parties should form opposition. They automatically become opposition if they do not get any ministerial posts, create a coalition, and in this case there would be a rather strong and powerful opposition coalition in the National Assembly versus the Republican Party,” says the leader of the National Democratic Union.

The opposition will not win unless they nominate a joint candidate.