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NDP WILL NOT NOMINATE ITS CANDIDATE

Politics

The National Democrats Party will not nominate a candidate for the presidential elections. Neither will the party support Vazgen Manukyan, the leader of the National Democratic Union, in case the opposition nominates a few candidates, NDP leader Shavarsh Kocharyan, said at the Pastark Club June 27.

According to him, the new Constitution of Armenia has turned the country into a typical semi-presidential state. It means the parliamentary election solved the problem of government: power belongs to the parliament majority and the prime minister leads the real government. In this context, the prospect that the president, the prime minister and the speaker are from the same party is not so important, Shavarsh Kocharyan says.

Shavarsh Kocharyan didn’t give assessments on the opposition. In other words, Shavarsh Kocharyan says Armenia needs an opposition which understands the logic of the new rules of the game. If the opposition does not change and become united setting forward a common candidate, it will inevitably lose the presidential election, Shavarsh Kocharyan thinks. Generally Shavarsh Kocharyan doen’t consider the Orinats Yerkir Party opposition.

“They are opposition as they were left out of the power,” he said.

“THE CURRENT SITUATION FAVORS ARMENIA”

The current situation in the world provides good opportunities to start the talks on Karabakh from a pro-Armenian point. He thinks the pro-Armenian stance is enabled by numerous factors. Firstly, according to international NGOs, namely Freedom House data, Azerbaijan is already a country of typical autocracy. Secondly, democratic processes have initiated in the NKR. And finally the Prague process has reached a deadlock due to Azerbaijan’s stance.