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ARFD WILL NOT SUPPORT SERGE SARGSYAN

Politics

ARF Dashnaktsutyun will not support Serge Sargsyan during the 2008 presidential elections, ARFD member Armen Rustamyan told A1+.

Armen Rustamyan says the agreement is a new model of political agreement, stability, which creates a new culture. “And the ARF Dashnaktsutyun underlines the importance of it because a political agreement finally leads to a national agreement,” Armen Rustamyan says. Nevertheless, some important issues remain to agree. First of all, the presidential candidate of 2008. “At least two reasons, I can point to.

First, it is the problem of our independence and the independent political tactics. Because you know that Dashnaktsutyun had said to name a candidate in the presidential election. And it was long discussed if Dashnaktsutyun was trying to get dividends in the parliamentary election or to build its tactics on it. Wasn’t it propaganda? I think the agreements signed after the negotiations gave a full answer to this question, and it became clear that Dashnaktsutyun is a party with a strong organization and the decisions that are passed by the supreme meetings of Dashnaktsutyun are implemented without reservations,” Armen Rustamyan says.

He said Dashnaktsutyun will name president during the Supreme Meeting in the fall. According to the representative of the ARFD Supreme Body, if Dashnaktsutyun had covert aims, i.e. named a formal candidate, and supported the Republican candidate in the second round, it would be pointless to negotiate for over a month on the government.

Armen Rustamyan also stated that it is ingenious to think the ARF Dashnaktsutyun’s candidate will not be competitive. Dashnaktsutyun is the force which can at least put up a competitive candidate in the presidential election. He says the situation is not ordinary because on the one hand they are not part of the coalition, on the other hand, they name ministers. “I should note, however, the difference is that a longer-lasting collaboration is set up through a political coalition. And collaboration is more flexible,” Armen Rustamyan says. The collaboration will last until the presidential election.